I would willingly give Thucydides for some authentic memoirs by Aspasia or by a slave of Pericles.
Prosper Mérimée Quotes
Prosper Mérimée (28 September 1803 — 23 September 1870) was an internationally popular master of French prose, as well as archaeologist, historian, translator, senator, and courtier.
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