For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

ἀνδρῶν γὰρ ἐπιφανῶν πᾶσα γῆ τάφος

Pericles

Quoted in Funeral Oration, by Thucydides

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Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. 431 B. C., bk. 2, ch. 43, sect. 3.

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Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Translated by Rex Warner. Penguin, 1972, bk. 2, ch. 43, sect. 3.

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