The Legacy of Greece
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781419138973
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History: World; History; History - General History; Greece; Europe - Greece; History / Greece
First sentence: IF the value of man's life on earth is to be measured in dollars and miles and horse-power, ancient Greece must count as a poverty-stricken and a minute territory; its engines and implements were nearer to the spear and bow of the savage than to our own telegraph and aeroplane.