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her intellectual leadership , so that most Greek writers or thinkers of any importance had some close connection there . Herodotus , whom Cicero calls “ the father of history , " visited Athens on several occasions and gave readings of ...
her intellectual leadership , so that most Greek writers or thinkers of any importance had some close connection there . Herodotus , whom Cicero calls “ the father of history , " visited Athens on several occasions and gave readings of ...
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a and restraint are visible in the products of Greek handicrafts , from the graceful , decorated pottery to the miniature engravings on gems . In the realm of intellectual matters , the Greeks may be said to have invented historiography ...
a and restraint are visible in the products of Greek handicrafts , from the graceful , decorated pottery to the miniature engravings on gems . In the realm of intellectual matters , the Greeks may be said to have invented historiography ...
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Renaissance means literally “ rebirth , ” and the name refers to the rebirth of classical , especially Greek , learning , after centuries of comparative neglect . But this revived interest is only part of a larger change in point of ...
Renaissance means literally “ rebirth , ” and the name refers to the rebirth of classical , especially Greek , learning , after centuries of comparative neglect . But this revived interest is only part of a larger change in point of ...
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| Title | Masterworks of World Literature, Volume 1 Masterworks of World Literature, Edwin Mallard Everett |
| Editor | Edwin Mallard Everett |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Dryden Press, 1955 |
| Length | 1000 pages |
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