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| Pericles Funeral Oration | ||
| Pericles praises Athenian democracy. ( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.html ) | ||
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| Excerpts from 'The Republic' | ||
| Plato lays out his concept of the philosopher-king. ( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plato-republic-philosopherking.html ) | ||
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| A Homeric Sacrifice for the Dead | ||
| Excerpt from Homer's Odyssey. ( http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/095.html ) | ||
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| The Roman Way of Declaring War | ||
| The Roman historian Livy's account of how the Roman Republic declared war. ( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/650livy1-34.html ) | ||
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| The Character of Hannibal | ||
| The Roman historian Polybius's description of the Carthaginian general Hannibal. ( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/polybius-hannibal.html ) | ||
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| The End of the Republic | ||
| Tacitus's description of how Augustus persuaded the people of Rome to accept the demise of the Republic. ( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/tacitus-ann1a.html ) | ||
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| The Germans | ||
| Julius Caesar's account of the German people's culture. ( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/51caesar-germans.html ) | ||
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| Letters from Roman Soldiers | ||
| Letters from Roman soldiers to their families. ( http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/paplet1.htm ) | ||
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