The Greeks
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
Published: January 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780844663036
Subjects: Ancient Greece; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History: American
First sentence: THE reader is asked, for the moment, to accept this as a reasonable statement of fact, that in a part of the world that had for centuries been civilized, and quite highly civilized, there gradually emerged a people, not very numerous, not very powerful, not very well organized, who had a totally new conception of what human life was for, and showed for the first time what the human mind was for.