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about 2 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #16/81 So they waited till the wind was in the right direction, and then brought vast quantities of faggots, and threw them into the space between

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2 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #15/81 On hearing their decision, the Spartan king made a last solemn appeal to the powers who presided over the territory of Plataea, a hallowe

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2 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #14/81 And we need not blame the great statesmen too harshly for not foreseeing the wild excesses of folly and extravagance which we shall have to

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3 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #13/81 Persuasion, we are told, sat enthroned on his lips; like a strong athlete, he overtook and outran all other orators; his words struck home l

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3 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #12/81 Envoys were sent with overtures of peace to Sparta, and when these returned with no favourable answer, the storm of popular fury grew more v

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3 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #11/81 It is recorded as a curious fact, showing the strange and outlandish character of the pestilence, that the birds and animals which feed o

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3 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #10/81 Great was the rage of the Acharnians, a hardy race of farmers and charcoal-burners, when they saw the smoke rising from their ruined home

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3 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #9/81 When the herald arrived, he found the men already slain, and the Athenians then proceeded to place the town in a state of defence, removing

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4 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #8/81 For the party which had betrayed the town was but small, and the general body of the citizens detested the thought of falling once more unde

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4 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #7/81 The furious zeal of Corinth had united her enemies against her, and they were bent on her ruin. The demands put forward by Sparta were a mer

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4 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #6/81 Every member of the league must join heartily in the struggle, whether he belonged to an inland or to a maritime city; for if the seaports w

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5 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #5/81 This, said Archidamus, was a great error; and the event proved that he was right. The Athenians, with their great colonial empire, and compl

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5 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #4/81 New times require new manners, and if you would maintain your great position you must move with the march of events, and abandon your old-fa

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5 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #3/81 The Spartans were sluggish and procrastinating by nature, and required some powerful impulse to induce them to act with vigour; and this imp

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8 months ago

Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #2/81 The Corinthians, however, were not at all disposed to acquiesce in their defeat, and during the whole of the following year they were busy

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