The Greeks
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, Inc.
Published: January 1951
Format: Textbook Binding
ISBN-13: 9780202120003
Subjects: Civilization; Greece; History; To 146 B.C
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.