I wish to see and feel this complex culture not only in the subtle and impersonal rhythm of its rise and fall, but in the rich variety of its vital elements: its ways of drawing a living from the land, and of organizing industryĪnd trade its experiments with monarchy, aristocracy, democracy, dictatorship, and revolution its manners and morals, its religious practices and beliefs its education of children, and its regulation of the sexes and the family its homes and temples, markets and theaters and athletic fields its poetry and drama, its painting, sculpture, architecture, and music its sciences and inventions, its superstitions and philosophies. DEDICATION TO MY FRIEND MAX SCHOTT PREFACE MY purpose is to record and contemplate the origin, growth, maturity, and decline of Greek civilization from the oldest remains of Crete and Troy to the conquest of Greece by Rome. Electronically Enhanced Text (c) Copyright 1994 World Library, Inc. Durant Trust, William James Durant Easton, and Monica Ariel Mihell. 4.8 2: The Life of Greece Durant, Will -THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION VOLUME TWO THE LIFE OF GREECE 1939 Being a history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the death of Alexander, to the Roman conquest with an introduction on the prehistoric culture of Crete by Will Durant Copyright (C) 1939 by Will Durant Copyright renewed (C) 1966 by Will Durant Exclusive electronic rights granted to World Library, Inc.

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