Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... Greek history . The two peninsulas lie side by side , but turn their backs on each other , and the Italians and Greeks rarely came into contact in the Adriatic Sea . The history of Italy falls into two main sections , its internal ...
... Greek history . The two peninsulas lie side by side , but turn their backs on each other , and the Italians and Greeks rarely came into contact in the Adriatic Sea . The history of Italy falls into two main sections , its internal ...
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... Greek history . The two peninsulas lie side by side , but turn their backs on each other , and the Italians and Greeks rarely came into contact in the Adriatic Sea . The history of Italy falls into two main sections , its internal ...
... Greek history . The two peninsulas lie side by side , but turn their backs on each other , and the Italians and Greeks rarely came into contact in the Adriatic Sea . The history of Italy falls into two main sections , its internal ...
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... Greeks and cousins of the Celts , Germans , and Slavonians.1 In regard to the graver problems of life , in moral , social , political , and religious development , we find a marked difference between the Greeks and the Italians . In the ...
... Greeks and cousins of the Celts , Germans , and Slavonians.1 In regard to the graver problems of life , in moral , social , political , and religious development , we find a marked difference between the Greeks and the Italians . In the ...
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... Greek lost sight of the spiritual abstractions , and gave all the phenomena of nature a concrete and corporeal shape , clothing all with the riches of his poetic fancy . The Roman , casting aside all mythical legends of the gods ...
... Greek lost sight of the spiritual abstractions , and gave all the phenomena of nature a concrete and corporeal shape , clothing all with the riches of his poetic fancy . The Roman , casting aside all mythical legends of the gods ...
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... Greek immigrations ; but all traces of the Itali , who were the primitive inhabitants of the country subsequently occu- pied by the Lucani and Bruttii , were entirely obliterated by these two races . It is also not improbable that the ...
... Greek immigrations ; but all traces of the Itali , who were the primitive inhabitants of the country subsequently occu- pied by the Lucani and Bruttii , were entirely obliterated by these two races . It is also not improbable that the ...
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