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Excerpt from Outline and Studies to Accompany Myers Ancient History: A Students Notebook To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. - Poe. Grecian history is a poem, Latin history is a picture, Modern history a chronicle. - Chateaubriand. Greece - that point of light in history! - Hegel. We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our art, have their roots in Greece.- Shelley. O Rome! my country! city of the soul! - Byron. The center of our studies, the goal of our thoughts, the point to which all paths lead and the point from which all paths start again, is to be found in Rome and her abiding power. - Freeman. I doubt not other lands shall finer mould The bronze until it breathe, or marble cut To lineaments that live, or better plead A cause, or with the rod the astronomy Of heaven describe and name the rising stars; But, son of Rome, remember it is thine To stretch thy empire o'er the human race. This be thy aim - to dictate terms of peace, The vanquished spare, but bring the haughty low. - Vergil (Long). If the Greek was to enlighten the world, if the Roman was to rule the world, if the Teuton was to be the common disciple and emissary of both, it was from the Hebrew that all were to learn the things that belong to another world. - Freeman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intent