06-05-2011, 06:55 PM
Quote:Well,the point is that it is Plutarch who writes these anecdotes,some 4-5 centuries after the supposed events happened. This makes them very dubious of course.
Yes, that was my point. :-) I do enjoy reading Plutarch, but I think he must be read with caution. If these particular quotes could be substantiated by more contemporary sources such as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon etc, then that could lend some validity to the theory.
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
