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A Record of Greece is the thrilling report of the go up to ability and affect of the best civilization the entire world has ever before known. As Cyril Robinson's lovely narrative unfolds, we find ourselves plunged into mankind's ideal and most spectacular adventure. The story starts in Minoan Crete, but quickly shifts to a dimly grasped mainland culture. We follow the heroic deeds of the Mycenians and the Trojan Conflict, the glorious creative and intellectual triumphs of the Ionians, the turmoil of the Doric invasion and resultant dark years, the slow recovery culminating in the epic Persian wars and the restored splendor of Periclean Athens. In the fifth century B.C., viewpoint, literature, artwork, and architecture reach a pinnacle in Athens which no civilization has ever before equaled. But civil strife soon follows and eventually a bitter struggle between Sparta and Athens for mastery of the Hellenic world embroils all of Greece. Though Sparta finally emerges victorious, her triumph soon transforms to ashes with the ascendancy of Thebes and the still greater ability of Philip of Macedon. Philip unites an unwilling Greece along with his iron coverage. Athens provides up her freedom, but retains an aloof intellectual and creative management in the Greek world. Across this spectacular fabric of background strides Alexander the fantastic, who calls for the banner of Hellenic culture completely across the Persian Empire and into India itself, a sensational event that altered the course of human history. This is accompanied by the Hellenistic years and the ultimate subjugation of Greece by Rome. An unbelievable epic, indeed.

Category: Classics