"The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.“


-Gilbert Murray

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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

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