So they gave their bodies to their country & received, each for his own memory, praise that will never die, and with it the grandest of all sepulchres. Not that in which their mortal bones are laid, but a home in the minds of men, where their glory remains fresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes by. For the whole earth is the seupulchre & famous men & their story is graven not only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the fabric & the lives of other men

Pericles oration on the Athenian dead, from the History of the Peleponnesian War, Thucydides.