The Greeks (East Gate Books)
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Published: August 30, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780202309101
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.