Project | Global Thucydides
Catalogue | Digital catalogue
Entry | Voor de democratie

Voor de democratie

Typology: Translation | Language: Dutch | Place of publication: Amsterdam | Publisher: Prometheus | Year: 2025

Greek Text: no

Content: Pericles’ Funeral Oration

Bas Heijne (1960-), writer, translator, essayist, and columnist. Heijne studied English language and literature at the University of Amsterdam and began his literary career in the early 1980s. From the late 1980s onwards he published travel writing and essays and has been closely associated with the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad, where he worked as an essayist and columnist since the early 1990s. He also translated works by authors such as Forster and Evelyn Waugh into Dutch.

Translation of Thuc. 2.34-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration), with an essay by Heijne on liberty and democracy.

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