Hellas A Short History Of Ancient Greece

In Greek History, someone has said, little that happened mattered much; it was what the Greeks thought that counted. This, broadly speaking, is the truth; and here I have tried to lay the main, emphasis on Greek ideas, setting them against the background of historic events. Obviously the best clue to their understanding is to be found in what the Greeks diemselves wrote; and, though no English version can be an adequate substitute, I have given in translation whatever passages appear to me most revealing.