The glory that was Greece : a survey of Hellenic culture and civilization (1915)
Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933, Hopper, R. J. (Robert John), 1910- · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 49
r earliest chronology. There are in theCretan museum scores of clay tablets inscribed with an un-known writing which only await an interpreter to confoundand illuminate us all. Forty years ago eminent writers likeGladstone and Freeman were still looking to Homer fortheir ideas of the primitive… … ^GEAN CIVILISATIONpersuasive speeches, and radicalism, though not unknown,was sternly discouraged. A benevolent monarchy, hereditaryin the male line, was supposed by Sir Henry Maine to bethe form of government common to primitive Europe andmodern England. Literature was believed to have begunwith…
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