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at major religious festivals in
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which they were fundamentally Greek even though it--
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well,they were entirely Greek,really.
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So that would have fostered this sense of panhellenism,
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but nothing could have given it the tremendous boost
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that it got like this victory of these thirty-one states
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that had banded together to defeat the Persians in that war.
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So,panhellenism is now on the horizon.
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I don't mean to say that the
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Greeks are shaped now into a single people,
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have retreated from their localism and their love for their polis;
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nothing could be further from the truth,