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Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece

Author: Various

Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge
Francis W. Halsey

Release Date: March 26, 2007 [EBook #20907]

Language: English

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[Illustration: HENRY CABOT LODGE]

THE BEST

_of the_

WORLD'S CLASSICS

RESTRICTED TO PROSE

HENRY CABOT LODGE

_Editor-in-Chief_

FRANCIS W. HALSEY

_Associate Editor_

With an Introduction, Biographical and
Explanatory Notes, etc.

IN TEN VOLUMES

Vol. I

GREECE

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

NEW YORK AND LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

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The Best of the World's Classics

VOL. I

GREECE

484 B.C.--200 A.D.

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INTRODUCTION

Ever since civilized man has had a literature he has apparently sought
to make selections from it and thus put his favorite passages together
in a compact and convenient form. Certain it is, at least, that to the
Greeks, masters in all great arts, we owe this habit. They made such
collections and named them, after their pleasant imaginative fashion,
a gathering of flowers, or what we, borrowing their word, call an
anthology. So to those austere souls who regard anthologies as a
labor-saving contrivance for the benefit of persons who like a
smatt