What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history,…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). The Annotated Emerson, p.150, Harvard University Press
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