Isocrates, To Archidamus, ed. Larue Van Hook, 3

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[3] For how could anyone have surpassed in nobility of birth the descendants of Heracles¹ and Zeus—and all men know that to your family alone confessedly belongs this honor—or in valor the founders of the Dorian cities in the Peloponnese who occupied that land, or in the multitude of the perilous deeds and the trophies erected as a result of your leadership and rule?

To Archidamus. Isocrates. ed. Larue Van Hook. Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Letter 9: To Archidamus (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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Ἐπιστολαὶ θʹ Ἀρχιδάμῳ Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 3 focus

[3] πῶς γὰρ ἄν τις ἢ τὴν εὐγένειαν ὑπερεβάλετο τῶν γεγονότων ἀφ’ Ἡρακλέους καὶ Διὸς ἣν πάντες ἴσασι μόνοις ὑμῖν ὁμολογουμένως ὑπάρχουσαν, ἢ τὴν ἀρετὴν τῶν ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ τὰς Δωρικὰς πόλεις κτισάντων καὶ τὴν χώραν ταύτην κατασχόντων, ἢ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν κινδύνων καὶ τῶν τροπαίων τῶν διὰ τὴν ὑμετέραν ἡγεμονίαν καὶ βασιλείαν σταθέντων;

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To Archidamus

1. The Spartan kings claimed descent from Heracles, the son of Zeus and Alcmena; cf. Isoc. 4.62 and Isoc. 6.8 .

Isocrates To Archidamus 3

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