Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War "So died these men as became Athenians. [...]. For this offering of their lives made in common by them all each of them individually received that renown which never grows old, and for a sepulchre, not so much that in which their bones have been deposited, but the noblest of shrines wherein their glory is laid up to be eternally remembered upon every occasion on which deed or story shall fall for its commemoration. For heroes have the whole Earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart." (The Funeral Oration of Pericles, Book II, 43) Submitted by: abl@cybill.inesc.pt (Antonio Leal)