Social Life in Greece from Homer to MenanderMacmillan, 1874 - 495 strani |
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... were partly due to an accident in our civilisation - the discovery of a rapid means of multiplying books , but partly to a higher and better religion . This latter is of course the great contrast , and the great i . ] 7 INTRODUCTION .
... were partly due to an accident in our civilisation - the discovery of a rapid means of multiplying books , but partly to a higher and better religion . This latter is of course the great contrast , and the great i . ] 7 INTRODUCTION .
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... means of their imposing wealth and culture . They settled also in the Greek waters , partly for commercial and mining purposes , as for example at Thasos , -where Herodotus saw a whole mountain disembowelled by their operations2 , - 1 ...
... means of their imposing wealth and culture . They settled also in the Greek waters , partly for commercial and mining purposes , as for example at Thasos , -where Herodotus saw a whole mountain disembowelled by their operations2 , - 1 ...
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... mean- ing ; every ordinary piece of good nature attributed to profound and self - denying benevolence . We are told that morals in historic Greece had decayed ; that a social state of real refinement and purity had passed away , to make ...
... mean- ing ; every ordinary piece of good nature attributed to profound and self - denying benevolence . We are told that morals in historic Greece had decayed ; that a social state of real refinement and purity had passed away , to make ...
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... means of an oath , that they will punish deceit . This belief , ap- parently surviving from an earlier and simpler state of society , must have been rudely shaken in Homeric times , when we consider the morality of Olympus in the epic ...
... means of an oath , that they will punish deceit . This belief , ap- parently surviving from an earlier and simpler state of society , must have been rudely shaken in Homeric times , when we consider the morality of Olympus in the epic ...
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... Frenchmen , who are very prone to prolong their youth by artificial means , and strive to maintain a place among their fellows which D they will lose when they are confessedly of the past II . ] GREEKS OF THE HOMERIC AGE . 33.
... Frenchmen , who are very prone to prolong their youth by artificial means , and strive to maintain a place among their fellows which D they will lose when they are confessedly of the past II . ] GREEKS OF THE HOMERIC AGE . 33.
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