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The Best of the World's Classics,
by Various
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Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece
Author: Various
Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge Francis W. Halsey
Release Date: March 26, 2007 [EBook #20907]
Language: English
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[Illustration: HENRY CABOT LODGE]
THE BEST
of the
WORLD'S CLASSICS
RESTRICTED TO PROSE
HENRY CABOT LODGE
Editor-in-Chief
FRANCIS W. HALSEY
Associate Editor
With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc.
IN TEN VOLUMES
Vol. I
GREECE
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
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The Best of the World's Classics
VOL. I
GREECE
484 B.C.--200 A.D.
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INTRODUCTION
Ever since civilized man has had a literature he has apparently sought to make s