The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. (Gilbert Murray)

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

Gilbert Murray

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