The Greek View of Life
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Excerpt
The following pages are intended to serve as a general
introduction to
Greek literature and thought, for those, primarily, who do not
know
Greek. Whatever opinions may be held as to the value of
translations, it
seems clear that it is only by their means that the majority of
modern
readers can attain to any knowledge of Greek culture; and as I
believe
that culture to be still, as it has been in the past, the most
valuable
element of a liberal education, I have hoped that such an attempt
as the
present to give, with the help of quotations from the original
authors,
some general idea of the Greek view of life, will not be regarded
as
labour thrown away.
