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... Athens , for it is at Athens in the fifth century B.C. that a Greek civilisation culminates and fails , and it is from the political and social life of that age that spring , as from a central fire , those forces of art and literature ...
... Athens , for it is at Athens in the fifth century B.C. that a Greek civilisation culminates and fails , and it is from the political and social life of that age that spring , as from a central fire , those forces of art and literature ...
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... Athens , there is always an element of surprise that the actual creation of the Parthenon and its sculp- ture belongs to the period after 447 B.C. , when a generation , which had not fought either at Marathon or Salamis , had grown up ...
... Athens , there is always an element of surprise that the actual creation of the Parthenon and its sculp- ture belongs to the period after 447 B.C. , when a generation , which had not fought either at Marathon or Salamis , had grown up ...
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... Athens . Tragic drama seems the distinctive flower of the Greek genius into which all their other literary forms were gathered together , so that it contains the splendours of epic narrative and the varying moods of lyric inspiration ...
... Athens . Tragic drama seems the distinctive flower of the Greek genius into which all their other literary forms were gathered together , so that it contains the splendours of epic narrative and the varying moods of lyric inspiration ...
Contents
THE ETERNAL WANDERER Page | 1 |
THE GREEK VIEW OF LIFE | 17 |
THE SUBSTANCE of Greek TRAGEDY | 39 |
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