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... political arena . As known to us at the height of its achievement , it is a true product of democratic free speech . The Hellenistic historians of literature realized that the rise and fall of political comedy coincided with those of ...
... political arena . As known to us at the height of its achievement , it is a true product of democratic free speech . The Hellenistic historians of literature realized that the rise and fall of political comedy coincided with those of ...
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... POLITICAL OPPRESSION , BRUTALITY , AND deceit for more than two centuries when the young Macaulay published this brilliant essay in 1827. The future Member of Parliament and Secretary for War overturned the conventional attitudes toward ...
... POLITICAL OPPRESSION , BRUTALITY , AND deceit for more than two centuries when the young Macaulay published this brilliant essay in 1827. The future Member of Parliament and Secretary for War overturned the conventional attitudes toward ...
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... political man , for he is not committed to the public life . He is most unlike the religious man . We will recognize in the case history of psychological man the nervous habits of his father , economic man : he is anti - heroic , shrewd ...
... political man , for he is not committed to the public life . He is most unlike the religious man . We will recognize in the case history of psychological man the nervous habits of his father , economic man : he is anti - heroic , shrewd ...
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HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
Sophocles | 78 |
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