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. . . . . entries for 14.10.07 . . . . . "For his offering of their lives made in common by them all, they each of them individually received that renown which never grows old, and for a sepulchre, not so much that in which their bones have been deposited, but that noblest of shrines wherein their glory is laid up to be eternally remembered upon every occasion on which deed or story shall fall for its commemoration. For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart." Thucydides: the original Erinesque believer in the afterlife of history, apparently.
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Which edition are you reading? I had the Everyman but the Landmark kicked its butt all over town.
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Also, Hobbes did a translation of Thucydides, which I understand to be very much colored by Hobbes' own thoughts but very much worth checking out in its own right regardless. come home? |
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