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| | ==Textual notes== | | ==Textual notes== |
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| − | ===Aeschylus===
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| − | Athenian playwright of many tragedies. Only seven survive - his Oresteia, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants, and Prometheus Bound, which is of debated authorship.
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| − | ===Aristogeiton and Harmodius===
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| − | Two Athenian men who famously killed the tyrant Hipparchus. They were popularly referred to as "the Tyrannicides" and were an enduring and prominent symbol of Athenian democracy for years to come. Thucydides and Herodotus also spoke about them as lovers in the Athenian tradition.
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| | ===Barbari et Barberini=== | | ===Barbari et Barberini=== |
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| | The Barberini were a family of the Italian nobility that rose to prominence in 17th century Rome. A saying goes: Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini, or "What the barbarians did not do, the Barberini did.", which was a criticsm for removing ancient bronze beams from the portico of the Pantheon to procure bronze for the baldachin of St. Peter's Basilica and for the papal cannon foundry. | | The Barberini were a family of the Italian nobility that rose to prominence in 17th century Rome. A saying goes: Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini, or "What the barbarians did not do, the Barberini did.", which was a criticsm for removing ancient bronze beams from the portico of the Pantheon to procure bronze for the baldachin of St. Peter's Basilica and for the papal cannon foundry. |
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| − | Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, bishop and theologian. He has been considered by many to be one of the most brilliant orators of all time. He was the Bishop of Meaux from 1681. to 1704.
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| − | ===(H)ephaestion===
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| − | Hephaestion was the close friend and advisor of Alexander the Great. They were referred to as one soul in two bodies by Aristotle, and Hephaestion was compared to Patroclus by Alexander. After he died, Alexander had an expensive funeral for him and only lived another few months.
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| − | ===Juvenal===
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| − | Roman satirical poet who wrote an account of Roman life called the Satires.
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| − | ===Nisus===
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| − | Nisus was a character in Vergil's Aeneid who was famously defensive of his lover Euryalus, and skeptical about if gods had any impact on his life. He died with Euryalus in book 9.
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| − | Patroclus was the devoted companion of Achilles in the Iliad. He died before Achilles, and spurred Achilles to kill Hector and die himself.
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| − | Divine twin of Castor. Their mother was Leda and Pollux's father Zeus, though Castor's was the mortal Tyndareus. When Castor died, Pollux asked his father Zeus to split his immortality with his twin, and they became the constellation Gemini.
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| − | Pylades was the devoted companion of Orestes. He convinces Orestes to go ahead with the revenge killing of his mother and is often considered to represent fate or encouragement from the gods.
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| | ==Citations== | | ==Citations== |
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