The Greeks (book)
1951 book by H. D. F. Kitto / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Greeks is a 1951 non-fiction book on classical Greece by University of Bristol professor and translator H. D. F. Kitto.[1][2] The book was first published as a hardback copy by Penguin Books, but has been republished in several formats since its initial publication. The Greeks serves as an introduction to the whole range of life in ancient Greece and established Kitto as one of the foremost Grecian scholars of his time.[3][4]
Author | H. D. F. Kitto |
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Language | English |
Subject | Classical Greece |
Publisher | Penguin Books |
Publication date | 1951 |
Media type | |
Pages | 256 pages |
Kitto begins the book:
The reader is asked, for a moment, to accept this as a reasonable statement of fact, that in a part of the world that had for centuries been civilized, and quite highly civilized, there gradually emerged a people, not very numerous, not very powerful, not very well organized, who had a totally new conception of what human life was for, and showed for the first time what the human mind was for.