Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Patriotism and Empire
History and poetry, we may be sure, will not willingly let die the antique tale Of the three hundred who at Thermopylae held out for Sparta against the Persian host, knowing that there could be but one end, and facing it with a stern exaltation, combing their long hair for that, the last festival, and singing the while.
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