Monday, September 05, 2022
My Greeks
Kenneth Dover, The Greeks, 3rd ed. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989), p. 133:
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My Greeks were neither sophisticated layabouts nor pious fatalists, and least of all were they portentous gurus brooding on the lost Secrets of the Ancients. They were resilient, sceptical, cheeky people, whose distinctive contribution to our history was to combine a readiness to ask 'Why?' and 'Why not?' with a conviction that only sane, reasoned, and clearly expounded answers to those questions were worth listening to.
