{"id":33,"date":"2005-08-14T19:31:53","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T00:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=33"},"modified":"2005-08-14T19:32:23","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T00:32:23","slug":"macaulay-on-grote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Macaulay On Grote"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Macaulay used to say that a lady who dips into Mr. Grote&#8217;s history, and learns that Alcibiades won the heart of his fellow-citizens by the novelty of his theories and the splendour of his liturgies, may get a very false notion of that statesman&#8217;s relations with the Athenian public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">George Otto Trevelyan, <em>The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay<\/em>, i.411, note 1.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose Macaulay mentions &#8220;a lady&#8221; because any man likely to read Grote would know enough Greek to distinguish between Greek <em>the<u>o<\/u>r&iacute;a<\/em> and <em>leitourg&iacute;a<\/em> and their English cognates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macaulay used to say that a lady who dips into Mr. Grote&#8217;s history, and learns that Alcibiades won the heart of his fellow-citizens by the novelty of his theories and the splendour of his liturgies, may get a very false &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=33\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greek-historiography","category-nachleben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}