The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece.\ "Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different. . . . What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpasses...
The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece.