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Thoughts on Thucydides
Mar. 21st, 2010 10:49 pmReading the end of the Funeral Oration while listening to the end of YAY WE PASSED HEALTHCARE on C-span leads one to really not want to know how things go down in my own political system. All of these democrats and their two-bit speeches about how awesome they all are were so stupid. I mean, I'm glad it passed, but I find that I don't want to hear about the people involved.
I am not up on scholarship of the Funeral Oration, but -- the Greeks were weird, if they actually found the parts about "to the parents of the dead: consider that the rest of your lives, in which you will be mourning your children, will be short compared to the length of time you were able to enjoy them" comforting. (NB I know that this wasn't actually an actual funeral oration).
And you know what? I kind of hate the part about women, and I don't care (though, if one is counting the Tacitus vs. Thucydides tally, Tacitus is not this stupid about women.)
I am not up on scholarship of the Funeral Oration, but -- the Greeks were weird, if they actually found the parts about "to the parents of the dead: consider that the rest of your lives, in which you will be mourning your children, will be short compared to the length of time you were able to enjoy them" comforting. (NB I know that this wasn't actually an actual funeral oration).
And you know what? I kind of hate the part about women, and I don't care (though, if one is counting the Tacitus vs. Thucydides tally, Tacitus is not this stupid about women.)
