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THIS book redresses in a remarkable way the injustice done to Ancient Greece in most popular works on the subject. Reference to any short history now in use, such as Bury's, or even to such a fine work as “Hellenica” of the last generation, will show that the author finds “the legacy of Greece” in the city-founding activities of the Greeks, and, above all, in the internecine conflicts of the cities in their prime, with some short reference to the Periclean ideal and the philosophic differences of Plato and Aristotle. There is little about literature, less about art, and nothing at all about science. Mr. Livingstone, in planning this volume, has deliberately and rightly set himself to correct this and to put the really substantive achievement of the Greeks in the realm of thought in its due place. The result is that a good third of the book is given to science, and if we include Prof. Burnet's article on Philosophy, which shows its connection with science, we get a larger proportion still. It is most welcome evidence of a change of mind in the university which stands more than any other among us for Greek studies.
The Legacy of Greece.
Edited by R. W. Livingstone. Pp. xii + 424. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) 7s. 6d. net.
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MARVIN, F. The Legacy of Greece . Nature 109, 169 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109169a0
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