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Tag Archives: Thucydides
Herodotus’ Histories
My previous experience of Herodotus had been, as for many classicists, that of reading isolated episodes, either as set texts for teaching Greek GCSE, or as passages for unseen translation. I’d also read some of his stories in secondary literature, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeschylus, Antigone, Greek history, Herodotus, Persians, Thucydides
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