Pericles and the plague: the body of the polis or the body and the polis
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https://doi.org/10.25187/codex.v2i1.2826Keywords:
Pericles, Thucydides, Funeral Oration, plague, Peloponesian WarAbstract
This paper discusses Pericles' Funeral Oration, in which there is an eulogy of Athens and the Athenians, in opposition to the narration of the plague and its effects on the inter-individual relationships and the structure of the polis, both in the book II of Thucydides' Peloponesian War.
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2010-06-30
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Santoro de Souza Amato, R. (2010). Pericles and the plague: the body of the polis or the body and the polis. CODEX - Revista De Estudos Clássicos, 2(1), 127–136. https://doi.org/10.25187/codex.v2i1.2826
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