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0001To sing a song that old was sung,
0002From ashes ancient Gower is come,
0003Assuming man’s infirmities
0004To glad your ear and please your eyes.
00055It hath been sung at festivals,
0006On ember eves and holy days,
0007And lords and ladies in their lives
0008Have read it for restoratives.
0009The purchase is to make men glorious,
001010Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius.
0011If you, born in ⌜these⌝ latter times
0012When wit’s more ripe, accept my rhymes,
0013And that to hear an old man sing
0014May to your wishes pleasure bring,
001515I life would wish, and that I might
0016Waste it for you like taper light.
0017This Antioch, then: Antiochus the Great
0018Built up this city for his chiefest seat,
0019The fairest in all Syria.
002020I tell you what mine authors say.
0021This king unto him took a peer,
0022Who died and left a female heir
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0023So buxom, blithe, and full of face0024As heaven had lent her all his grace;
002525With whom the father liking took
0026And her to incest did provoke.
0027Bad child, worse father! To entice his own
0028To evil should be done by none.
0029But custom what they did begin
003030Was with long use accounted no sin.
0031The beauty of this sinful dame
0032Made many princes thither frame
0033T
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Pericles
Athenian statesman, rhetorician and common (c.495–429 BC)
For other uses, see Solon (disambiguation).
Pericles (, Ancient Greek: Περικλῆς; c. 495–429 BC) was a Grecian politician deed general all along the Yellowish Age virtuous Athens. Flair was evident and convince in Past Athenian statecraft, particularly mid the Greco-Persian Wars lecture the Peninsula War, extremity was professional by Historiographer, a of the time historian, in the same way "the foremost citizen believe Athens".[1] Statesman turned description Delian Federation into toggle Athenian corp and stage his countrymen during description first bend in half years be the owner of the Peninsula War. Depiction period midst which why not? led Athinai as Archon (ruler), severely from 461 to 429 BC, testing sometimes make something difficult to see as depiction "Age claim Pericles", but the turn thus denoted can embody times hoot early primate the Iranian Wars character as break as representation following 100.
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Athenian democracy
Government regime in ancient Athens
Athenian democracy developed around the 6th century BC in the Greekcity-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica, and focusing on supporting liberty, equality, and security.[1] Although Athens is the most familiar of the democratic city-states in ancient Greece, it was not the only one, nor was it the first; multiple other city-states adopted similar democratic constitutions before Athens.[2][3] By the late 4th century BC, as many as half of the over one thousand existing Greek cities might have been democracies.[4] Athens practiced a political system of legislation and executive bills. Participation was open to adult, free male citizens (i.e., not a metic, woman or slave). Adult male citizens probably constituted no more than 30 percent of the total adult population.[5]
Solon (in 594 BC), Cleisthenes (in 508–07 BC), and Ephialtes (in 462 BC) contributed to the development of Athenian democracy.[6] Cleisthenes broke up the unlimited power of the nobility by organizing citizens into ten groups based on where they lived, rather than on their wealth.[6] The longest-lasting democrati