Comte and J.P.; Epaminondas and the Sacred Band at Thebes).
C2.

Contrast of subject enlivening the style--light concrete as a foil to the last drier abstract detail.

Humorous also, with a dramatising and development of the characters, Shakespeare-wise--Hystaspas, and the rest.

Aglaitadas, a type of educator we know well (cf.Eccles.

"Cocker not a child"), grim, dry person with no sense of humour.