# What Have the Greeks Done for Modern Civilisation? Author: Mahaffy, J. P. (John Pentland), 1839-1919 Genre: Category: History - Ancient Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59132 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=What+Have+the+Greeks+Done+for+Modern+Civilisation%3F+Mahaffy&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary These lectures, delivered in Boston at the invitation of the Curator of the Lowell Institute, in December and January, 1908-9, are now published owing to many requests both from those that heard them and from those that did not. They are an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek influence, not only in the various arts in which such influence is generally realised, but also in those departments of thinking in which moderns arrogate to themselves an unquestioned superiority. Yet it will be found, even in the following necessarily brief and popular sketch, that, as regards _thinking_, the Greeks were as supreme in science as in other departments, and, though they did not discover the powe... ## Chapters - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/14/index.md) - [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-have-the-greeks-done-for-modern-civilisation-59132/chapters/15/index.md)