# Authors of Greece

Author: Lumb, T. W. (Thomas Wallace)

Genre: Greece

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8115

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Authors+of+Greece+Lumb&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Greek literature is more modern in its tone than Latin or Medieval or Elizabethan. It is the expression of a society living in an environment singularly like our own, mainly democratic, filled with a spirit of free inquiry, troubled by obstinate feuds and still more obstinate problems. Militarism, nationalism, socialism and communism were well known, the preachers of some of these doctrines being loud, ignorant and popular. The defence of a maritime empire against a military oligarchy was twice attempted by the most quick-witted people in history, who failed to save themselves on both occasions. Antecedently then we might expect to find some lessons of value in the record of a people whos...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-of-greece-8115/chapters/20/index.md)