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Pericles's funeral speech after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war.
"Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. Its administration favors the many
instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences; if no social standing.
advancement in public life falls to reputation for capacity, class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way, if a
man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. [...]
Further, we provide plenty of means for the mind to refresh itself from business. We celebrate games and sacrifices all the year round [-] while the magnitude
of our city draws the produce of the world into our harbor, so that to the Athenian the fruits of other countries are as famillar a luxury as those of his own.
If we turn to our military policy, there also we differ from our antagonists. We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from
any opportunity of learning or observing, although the eyes of an enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality; trusting less in system and policy than to the
native spirit of our citizens; while in education, where our rivals from their very cradles by a painful discipline seek after manliness, at Athens we live exactly as
we please, and yet are just as ready to encounter every legitimate danger. In proof of this it may be noticed that the Lacedaemonians do not invade our country
alone, but bring with them all their confederates; while we Athenians advance unsupported into the territory of a neighbor, and fighting upon a foreign soll
usually vanquish with ease men who are defending their homes. [...]
Nor are these the only points in which our city is worthy of admiration. We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy, wealth
we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of poverty not in owning to the fact but in declining the struggle against it. [...]
In short, I say that as a city we are the school of Hellas, while I doubt if the world can produce a man who, where he has only himself to depend upon, is equal
to so many emergencies, and graced by so happy a versatility, as the Athenian. [...]
Question :
When Perciles calls Athens the “school of Hellas” he mans that :
A) the Athenians are about to teach their rivals a lesson in battle
B) Athenians are like school children and have a lot to learn
C) All of Greece should learn from the Athenian example
D) People from all over enroll at the Athenian university