Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence by Fisher Nick Wees Hans Van

Author:Fisher, Nick,Wees, Hans Van
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy, Dark Humor, Nonfiction, An abstract treatise of sexuality.
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Published: 1998-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

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THE NEW SIMONIDES AND

HEROIZATION AT PLATAIA

Deborah Boedeker

In a speech published a century after the event, Isokrates extravagantly suggests of the men who fought in the Persian War,

I even believe that one of the gods, admiring their excellence (arete), brought about the war so that men of such natures would not remain unknown or end their lives without fame (kleos), but be deemed worthy of the same things that happened to the so-called demigods (hemitheoi) who are descended from gods. The bodies of those men the gods gave over to the constraints of nature, but the memory (mneme) of their arete they made undying (athanatos). (Panegyrikos 84)1

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