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Thucydides, The History Of The Peloponnesian War, 7.77.7

‘τό τε ξύμπαν γνῶτε, ὦ ἄνδρες στρατιῶται, ἀναγκαῖόν τε ὂν ὑμῖν ἀνδράσιν ἀγαθοῖς γίγνεσθαι ὡς μὴ ὄντος χωρίου ἐγγὺς ὅποι ἂν μαλακισθέντες σωθείητε καί, ἢν νῦν διαφύγητε τοὺς πολεμίους, οἵ τε ἄλλοι τευξόμενοι ὧν ἐπιθυμεῖτέ που ἐπιδεῖν καὶ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι τὴν μεγάλην δύναμιν τῆς πόλεως καίπερ πεπτωκυῖαν ἐπανορθώσοντες: ἄνδρες γὰρ πόλις, καὶ οὐ τείχη οὐδὲ νῆες ἀνδρῶν κεναί.’ To sum up, be convinced, soldiers, that you must be brave, as there is no place near for your cowardice to take refuge in, and that if you now escape from the enemy, you may all see again what your hearts desire, while those of you who are Athenians will raise up again the great power of the state, fallen though it be. Men make the city and not walls or ships without men in them.’

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Aeschylus, Persians, 348-352, 347 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 347. θεοὶ πόλιν σῴζουσι Παλλάδος θεᾶς. Ἄτοσσα
2. Herodotus, Histories, 7.141.3 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 7.141.3. quote type="oracle" l met="dact"Vainly does Pallas strive to appease great Zeus of Olympus; /l lWords of entreaty are vain, and so too cunning counsels of wisdom. /l lNevertheless I will speak to you again of strength adamantine. /l lAll will be taken and lost that the sacred border of Cecrops /l lHolds in keeping today, and the dales divine of Cithaeron; /l lYet a wood-built wall will by Zeus all-seeing be granted /l lTo the Trito-born, a stronghold for you and your children. /l /quote
3. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 57, 56 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aristotle	Ben-Eliyahu, Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity (2019) 97
athens	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 210; Ben-Eliyahu, Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity (2019) 97
battle	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 210
cleisthenes	Ben-Eliyahu, Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity (2019) 97
elden, struart	Ben-Eliyahu, Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity (2019) 97
gender, men	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 210
lucian, reversed identities in	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 259
lucian	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 259
nomadism	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 259
persia	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 210
polis	Ben-Eliyahu, Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity (2019) 97
scythia and scythians	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 259
solon	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 259
sophists	Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception (2022) 259
territory	Ben-Eliyahu, Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity (2019) 97
thebes	Ben-Eliyahu, Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity (2019) 97
thucydides	Ben-Eliyahu, Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity (2019) 97
tragedy'	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 210