Classical Antiquities
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ISBN13: 9780217822916
Paperback|9780217822916
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OLD GREEK LIFE. CHAPTER I. GENERAL FEATURES OF THE GREEK NATION. i. Introduction.?There is no doubt that Greek history and Greek literature are very important for us to know, because there is hardly any people that ever lived upon the earth who worked so hard at politics, or who wrote so many excellent books and wrote them so well. These things are described in the Primers of Greek History and Literature which have been published in this series. But we cannot understand Greek history, or enjoy Greek books, without knowing something of the private life and ways of the people, their habits and customs, their business and their sports, their law and their religion. For while On many points they thought exactly as we do, on others their notions were quite different from ours. At Athens, for example, as among us, it was thought vulgar and ill-bred to hurry along the streets, or to talk at the top of one's voice, but on the other hand, if a gentleman was found going about without a walking stick he was presumed by the police to be disorderly, and imprisoned for the night. Again, while they were more careful than we are about the nurture and right education of children, they often threw out little infants to perisfc/iCtlieJrlhfcught that there were already enough In the lipuse. The, private life of the Greeks s6eftisjih: faQttbl-iK5 a; cjiripue mixture of cruelty and kindriesfcffVude'hes's''a'ncr refinement. We shall find, however, as we describe it, that both their life and temper had as distinct a character of their own as the life and temper of the nations which are around us nowadays. 2. General Characteristics of the Race.? As all the Greeks spoke the same tongue, and worshipped the same gods, so they felt themselves distinct from all the people around them, whom they..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217822916 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217822916 |
| Weight | 0.23 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.14 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 60 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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