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Hector went his way to the palace of Alexander,1 the fair palace that he himself had built with the men that were in that day the best builders in deep-soiled Troy…
Name of Source: Iliad
Author: Homer
Relative Date: CA. 1135 BCE
“Ode to a Loved One”
Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee, all the while, Softly speaks and sweetly smiles.
Name of Source: Personal Poetry
Author: Sappho of Lesbos
Relative Date: CA. 600 BCE
[The Ancient Aristocratic Constitution: ca. 800 bce] Now the ancient constitution,13 as it existed before the time of Draco,14 was organized as follows…
Name of Source: Aristotle’s Athenian Constitution
Author: Aristotle (or one of his pupils)
Relative Date: 800-507 BCE (written during 4th century BCE)
During the same winter,61 in accordance with an an- cestral custom, the funeral of those who first fell in this war was celebrated by the Athenians at the public charge. The ceremony is as follows…
Name: Pericles’ Funeral Oration
Author: Thucydides
Relative Date: 431 BCE
Philonicus the Thessalian brought the horse Bucephalus to Philip, offering to sell him for thirteen talents,21 but when they went into the field to try him, they found him so very vicious and unmanageable
Name: Life of Alexander
Author: Plutarch
Relative Date: CA. 350 BCE
