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History and Assassination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Extract

‘With a modern reader, the assassination of the four leaders, in their houses, and at the banquet, raises a sentiment of repugnance which withdraws his attention from the other features of this memorable deed.’

Grote, in the passage just quoted, is referring to the assassination which freed Thebes from the Spartan yoke.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1889

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