Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story

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astrologer who brings a note of irritable scepticism to Periander’s tales (I quote throughout from the 1619 translation and

This is not the first time that Maurice has raised objections to Periander’s story, which he thinks is too long-winded and According to Vlachos, Thucydides must have been about 30 years old when Pericles delivered his Funeral Oration and he was probably among the audience. [150] Other analysts maintain an Athenian humanism illustrated in the Golden Age. [176] [177] The freedom of expression is regarded as the lasting legacy deriving from this period. [178] Pericles is lauded as "the ideal type of the perfect statesman in ancient Greece" and his Funeral Oration is nowadays synonymous with the struggle for participatory democracy and civic pride. [140] [179] entirely credible, no matter how much common sense and the laws of physics may suggest to the reader that the event is impossible.

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Aristotle. Athenian Constitution. Translated by Frederic George Kenyon– via Wikisource. See original text in Perseus program. a tower but is saved by her farthingale's acting as a parachute. There are other implausible occurences, such as newly-born

Kagan, Donald (1974). The Archidamian War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-0889-2.a stranger who comes from the sea and then deserts her. Like Homer’s Odysseus, Cervantes’ Periander (the English form of Periandro) tells much of the story in the first person, and again like Odysseus, he is an untrustworthy narrator. In chapter 15 of