The Greek Way
edith hamilton
Paperback
(Time Inc., March 15, 1942)
1964 Time Inc. trade paperback, edith hamilton (Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes). Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different. . . . What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpasses and very rarely equalled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the Western world