Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 68
on:the land of Pericles and Thucydrdes now neither made history nor wroteit. Progress was to come not from rhetoric or poetry but from the proseof a reviving commerce. After Justinian had introduced the culture of thesilkworm into the empire (see Ch. X) Greece became a great centre ofweaving, and… … Fig. 23. Carved limestone frieze of the fourth-fifth century in the Cairo Museum. (Catalogue general: Koptische Kunsl, No. 7308.) not only in Euboea but in Thebes and in the Morea; and when the Normanprinces wished to establish silk manufacture in Sicily, it was to Greece thatthey sent for workmen.…
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