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Andocides, Against Alcibiades, 22


nanThat is why the young spend their days in the courts instead of in the gymnasia; that is why our old men fight our battles, while our young men make speeches — they take Alcibiades as their model, Alcibiades who carries his villainy to such unheard-of lengths that, after recommending that the people of Melos be sold into slavery, he purchased a woman from among the prisoners and has since had a son by her, a child whose birth was more unnatural than that of Aegis — thus, since he is sprung from parents who are each other's deadliest enemies, and of his nearest kin the one has committed and the other has suffered the most terrible of wrongs.


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barbarian, stereotypes Sweeney, Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia (2013) 32
cultural difference, oppositional model Sweeney, Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia (2013) 32
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dinarchus Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57
hybridity' Sweeney, Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia (2013) 32
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myth, in oratory Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57
persians Sweeney, Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia (2013) 32
poetry, quotation from, in aeschines and demosthenes Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57
speeches, diplomatic, as genre Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 57