The Greek Achievement.(Review) (book review) (book review)

The Greek Achievement.

The Foundation of the Western World

Charles Freeman Allen Lane The Penguin Press 494 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 071399224 7

WE ARE MOVING, AT VARYING SPEEDS, into a new millennium. Will the ancient Greeks go with us, or should they? If the four authors whose work is under review here have their way, we shall have no choice but to take them. They are part of our mental furniture, our cultural baggage. Alternatively, they are the rock on which the painfully constructed edifice of our bimillennial experience ultimately rests. But which Greeks is ...

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