This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...destiny the gods might have ordained."1 That funeral day was, indeed, one of the great days in ancient Athens. The Plague at Athens (430 B.C.).--Very soon had the Athenians need to exercise all those virtues which the orator had admonished them to cherish; for upon the return of the next campaigning season, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...destiny the gods might have ordained."1 That funeral day was, indeed, one of the great days in ancient Athens. The Plague at Athens (430 B.C.).--Very soon had the Athenians need to exercise all those virtues which the orator had admonished them to cherish; for upon the return of the next campaigning season, the Peloponnesians, having mustered again two-thirds of all their fighting forces, broke once more into Attica and ravaged the land anew, giving to the flames such villages and farm-houses, chiefly in the southern and eastern parts of the district, as had escaped destruction the previous year. The Athenians, adhering to their policy of avoiding a battle in the open field, remained behind their walls, enduring as best they might the sight of the smoke of their burning homes drifting over the plain. The walls of Athens were unassailable by the hostile army; but unfortunately they were no defense against a more terrible foe. A pestilence broke out in the crowded city, and added its horrors to the already unbearable calamities of war. Thucydides was himself a sufferer from the disease, and gives in his history a very careful account of the scourge. The plague is thought to have originated in Egypt; to have spread from there over the Persian empire, and finally to have entered Athens through the Peiraeus, whither it probably was brought by ships coming from infected ports. From the historian's description of the symptoms shown by the victims of the disorder, it is believed that the disease was a malignant form of typhoid fever. So frightful was the mortality stone which surmounts the grave of her brave sons." As to the possible connection of this relief with the funeral oration of Pericles, Dr. Waldstein says: "Though I do not mean to say that ...
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Spine fade, cover wear, some chipping to inner rear hinge yet tight binding, slight foxing, clean throughout, Good + 577pp, smaller octavo in red cloth.
