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billionare (25)in #plataea • 18 hours 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 hallowed precinct, now about to be given up to…
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billionare (25)in #plataeans • 7 days 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 record in the following pages.…
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billionare (25)in #athenian • 9 days 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 like the lightning, while he held…
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billionare (25)in #sparta • 19 days 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 violent than ever. Pericles, who knew…
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billionare (25)in #plague • 25 days 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 on human flesh generally shunned the…
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billionare (25)in #pericles • 27 days 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 homesteads; and their feelings were shared…
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billionare (25)in #greeks • last month
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 the women and children and all…
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billionare (25)in #thebans • last month
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 under the supremacy of Thebes. Their…
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billionare (25)in #sparta • 2 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 mere pretext, and if the Athenians had…
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billionare (25)in #athenians • 2 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 were closed by the Athenian fleets…
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billionare (25)in #athenians • 3 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 complete command of the sea, were quite…
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billionare (25)in #athenian • 3 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-fashioned ways. Do not mistake…
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billionare (25)in #athenian • 3 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 impulse was now supplied by Corinth. By…
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billionare (25)in #athenians • 6 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 organising a fresh expedition on a…
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billionare (25)in #epidamnus • 11 months ago
Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides #1/81
STORIES FROM THUCYDIDES CORINTH AND CORCYRA I It was in a remote corner of the Greek world that the trouble began which was destined to breed such mischief and havoc for the…
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