Summary
Mikhail Gasparov: Interesting Greece
If you, a young reader, flip through this book, look at the thumbnails, look at the contents, read a few pages here and there - the first question you will ask will probably be the following: "Is it true that it happened?" East. It is true that the Spartans were invincible warriors, and the Athenians were better than others at building marble temples and creating tragedies for the theater. It is true that the word "philosophy" appeared for the first time in the Greek language, and that in the Library of Alexandria they dealt with almost all the sciences that we deal with today. that all heroes were heroes without fear and flaws, and villains - villains to the bottom of their black souls; that all the speeches that were given were so clever, short and harmonious; that all the savagery of earthly nature and human customs, about which the ancient Greeks heard, were really like that - that, of course, cannot be guaranteed. There is a lot of fabrication.
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