Few Of The Great Works Of Ancient

It Is Doubtless One Of Aristotle's Great Services That He Conceived So Clearly The Truth That Literature Is A Thing That Grows And Has A History.

The Fact Is That Much Misunderstanding Is Often Caused By Our Modern Attempts To Limit Too Strictly The Meaning Of A Greek Word.

The Average Beast Of Prey Is A Decent Creature Who Merely Kills For The Sake Of Food Or In A Fight Against An Enemy. It Is Only Man Who Calls Killing "sport" And Kills For The Pleasure Of Killing; Not For Food, Not For Self-defense, But Just To Satisfy Some Primitive Instinct, Once Necessary And Now Perverted.

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.

Few Of The Great Works Of Ancient Greek Literature Are Easy Reading.