Epaminondas (Ancient Greek: Ἐπαμεινώνδας; ca. 418 BC – 362 BC), or Epameinondas, was a Theban general and statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a preeminent position in Greek politics. In the process he broke Spartan military power with his victory at Leuctra and liberated the Messenian helots, a group of Peloponnesian Greeks who had been enslaved under Spartan rule for some 230 years, having been defeated in the Messenian War ending in 600 BC. Epaminondas reshaped the political map of Greece, fragmented old alliances, created new ones, and supervised the construction of entire cities. He was militarily influential as well, inventing and implementing several major battlefield tactics.
The Roman orator Cicero called him "the first man of Greece", but Epaminondas has fallen into relative obscurity in modern times. The changes Epaminondas wrought on the Greek political order did not long outlive him, as the cycle of shifting hegemonies and alliances continued unabated. A mere twenty-seven years after his death, a recalcitrant Thebes was obliterated by Alexander the Great. Thus Epaminondas—who had been praised in his time as an idealist and liberator—is today largely remembered for a decade (371 BC to 362 BC) of campaigning that sapped the strength of the great land powers of Greece and paved the way for the Macedonian conquest.
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The story of a writer who becomes obsessed with an article in the newspaper about a mysterious crime that happened at midnight between the streets Escobedo and Garcia. "The only fact revealed accidentally, is that the deceased was a vicious character."
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Catito, a clown, manages to flee a forced marriage, by hiding inside Dr. Cláudio's car trunk. In Rio de Janeiro, his host forces him to impersonate the famous painter Picanssô, to impress his girlfriend Sílvia's friends. She's a socialite whose main interest is her own social projection.
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In São Paulo, the small time crook Epaminondas sells ice-creams, but loses his job after giving free ice-creams to poor children. Epaminondas owes eight months of rent of his house and has many debts in the stores in the neighborhood. When he is ready to be evicted, the officer discovers that he was his father's best friend in the law school. His father offers the position of janitor of an empty mansion and Epaminondas accepts the job. When he arrives, the neighbors believe he is the new owner of the manor and he has credit everywhere. He pretends to be wealthy, hires a butler and a staff of servants, buys new furniture and the whole art gallery and gets a bank loan using only promissory notes. But when the day to pay his debts comes...