Greek City States

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“So you may say,
“Greek flower; Greek ecstasy
reclaims for ever
one who died
following
intricate songs’ lost measure.””
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“But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”
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