The Greeks (Penguin History)
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: June 30, 1950
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780140135213
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History: World; Greece; History - General History; Ancient Greece; To 146 B.C; Ancient - Greece; Essays & Travelogues; History / Ancient / Greece; Civilization; History
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.