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"Within seven centuries, [the ancient Greeks] invented for itself, epic, elegy, lyric, tragedy, novel, democratic government, political and economic science, history, geography, philosophy, physics and biology; and made revolutionary advances in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, anatomy, engineering, law and war... a stupendous feat for whose most brilliant state Attica was the size of Hertfordshire, with a free population (including children) of perhaps 160,000."
 By: | F. J. Lucas (more quotes by F. J. Lucas or books by/about F. J. Lucas) |
Categories: | Civilization, Economics, Experimentation, Freedom, Government, Health, History, Independence, Knowledge, Law, Learning, Liberty, Politics, Reason, Republic, Responsibility, Science, Children |
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