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One should not invoke the glorificatory speech of Pericles: for it is no more than a grand, optimistic illusion as to supposedly necessary connection between the polis and Athenian culture; immediately before night descends on Athens (the plague, the rupture of tradition), Thucydides makes it rise resplendent once again, like a transfiguring evening glow in whose light the evil day that preceded it could be forgotten. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Section 474, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, trans. R.J. Hollingdale CUP, 1996
Posted on: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:01:50 +0000

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