great works of ancient Greek literature. Learning the language of ancient Greece is a lifelong challenge and an abiding pleasure for the curious intellect. Many factors combine to make ancient Greek a difficult lan-guage to master: a large, nuanced vocabulary (more than three times the number of words in extant Latin);

ancient Greeks and their culture. 2. Following the battle of Jena, the Prussian minister of education announced that he would reconstruct Prussian society on the ancient Greek model. There was a tendency in German thought to seek perfection by returning to the Greeks. 3. In many respects, the Greeks are the idealized version of what we seek to ...

ANCIENT GREECE The ancient Greeks lived in an area along the northeastern Mediterranean Sea, with a wide variety of topography: mainland, peninsulas and many islands. Because of this location, it was natural that the Greeks became active in trade by sea. The first civilization in ancient Greece was located on the island of Crete.

Eastward from Greece, the sea is full of islands, some large, others small. Th ey also were settled by the Greeks. In the old days each of these was a kingdom by itself. Some were the homes of pirates who lived by robbing the vessels which came and went upon the sea. In others lived the merchants whose ships these pirates robbed.

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Plato (427-347 BC), means in Greek “broad,” and was allegedly a nickname for the. breadth of his shoulders (Laertius, 1979). He was born an Athenian aristocrat and was greatly. influenced by ...