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Chapter 18 第十八章 The Persian Wars 抗击波斯人侵的战争 How the Greeks defended Europe Against Asiatic invasion and drove the Persians back across the Aegean Sea 希腊人成功抵御了亚洲对欧洲的入侵，将波斯人赶回了爱琴

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This individual was allowed to step out of line. He waved his arms and gesticulated while he spoke (that is to say he acted while the others merely stood by and sang) and he asked a lot of questions, which the bandmaster answered according to the rol

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The singer who meh-mehed like a goat therefore was called a tragos-oidos or goat singer, and it is this strange name which developed into the modern word Tragedy, which means in the theatrical sense a piece with an unhappy ending, just as Comedy (whi

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Chapter 17 第十七章 The Greek Theater 古希腊的戏剧 The Origins of the theater, the first form of public amusement 人类第一种公共娱乐形式---戏剧的起源 At a very early stage of their history the Greeks had begun to collect the

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The same simplicity which prevailed in the dining room also dominated their choice of clothes. They liked to be clean and well groomed, to have their hair and beards neatly cut, to feel their bodies strong with the exercise and the swimming of the gy

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Within this courtyard the family lived when it did not rain or when it was not too cold. In one corner of the yard the cook (who was a slave) prepared the meal and in another corner, the teacher (who was also a slave) taught the children the alpha be

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For the Greeks, who loved moderation in all things, did not like to treat their slaves after the fashion which afterward was so common in Rome, where a slave had as few rights as an engine in a modern factory and could be thrown to the wild animals u

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The slaves did all the cooking and baking and candlestick making of the entire city. They were the tailors and the carpenters and the jewelers and the school-teachers and the bookkeepers and they tended the store and looked after the factory while th

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Chapter 16 第十六章 Greek life 古希腊人的生活 How the Greeks Lived 古希腊人是怎样生活的 But how, you will ask, did the ancient Greeks have time to look after their families and their business if they were forever running to the m

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To protect the poorer classes against abuse on the part of the judges (who were always elected from the class of the nobles because they received no salary) Solon made a provision whereby a citizen with a grievance had the right to state his case bef

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This new form of dramatic entertainment demanded a proper setting, and soon every Greek city owned a theatre, cut out of the rock of a nearby hill. The spectators sat upon wooden benches and faced a wide circle (our present orchestra where you pay th

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The cellars underneath this palace, where the wine and the grain and the olive-oil were stored, had been so vast and had so greatly impressed the first Greek visitors, that they had given rise to the story of the labyrinth, the name which we give to

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Chapter 15 第十五章 Greek self-government 古希腊的自治制度 The Greeks were the first people to try the difficult experiment of self-government 古希腊人是历史上最早进行自治实验的民族 IN the beginning, all the Greeks had

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They performed these miracles in little villages that covered less ground than four or five modern city blocks. 令人惊叹的是，他们创造了奇迹的场所，尽管是些相当于现代城市四、五个街区大小的小村庄。 And look, w

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It was the small house within the high city-walls where his wife and children lived in safety. It was a complete world which covered no more than four or five acres of rocky land. Don't you see how these surroundings must have influenced a man in eve

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Chapter 14 第十四章 The Greek cities 古希腊城邦 The Greek cities that were really states. 古希腊的城市其实是独立的国家 We modern people love the sound of the word big. We pride ourselves upon the fact that we belong to the bigg

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But here and there, on the tops of high rocks, they saw the castles of the Aegeans and those they did not attack for they feared the metal swords and the spears of the Aegean soldiers and knew that they could not hope to defeat them with their clumsy

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Chapter 13 第十三章 The Greeks 希腊人 Meanwhile the Indo-European tribe of the Hellenes was taking possession of Greece 印欧语系的赫愣人占据了希腊半岛 THE Pyramids were a thousand years old and were beginning to show the first s

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A very careful study of these many relics has done away with some of the romantic features of the story. The makers of these early works of art and the builders of these strong fortresses were no sorcerers, but simple sailors and traders. They had li

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Then something very interesting occurred. If Schliemann had found a few polished stone hammers and perhaps a few pieces of crude pottery, no one would have been surprised. Instead of discovering such objects, which people had generally associated wit