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...views his rise as an academic Horatio Alger with slight misgiving. "I've had to rewrite most of the lectures," he says. "In that cold and austere Graeco--Roman setting you stand up in your toga and pontificate. You can't be intimate in the Mohavi Desert...
Asia, Parthia & Rome. "If a modern westernizing world were to be unified peacefully," Toynbee said, "one could imagine, in 2002, a political map not unlike that of the Graeco-Roman world in A.D. 102, in which everything between Britain and India inclusive was gathered up in three empires-the empire in India and central Asia, the Parthian in Iran and Iraq, the Roman world round the Mediterranean. In form these three powers were all mutually independent, in reality the paramountcy of the Roman Empire was admitted by the other...
Samothrace, a small island in the Aegean Sea, is now barren and only thinly inhabited. But in classical times it was the center of a fabulous religious cult. From all over the Graeco-Roman world, devotees came to worship "The Great Gods of Samothrace" and to be initiated into their ancient and secret mysteries...
Parts II, III, and IV present a detailed account of economic thought from Graeco-Roman times through the Middle Ages and down to World War I. Philosophy, sociology, history, and literature are woven into the book as few economists besides Schumpter could coordinate them. Part V, unfortunately left fragmentary, discusses recent trends in economic theory and ties them to past developments...
...first appearance Christianity was provided by the Graeco-Roman civilization with a universal state, in the shape of the Roman Empire with its policed roads and shipping routes, as an aid to the spread of Christianity round the shores of the Mediterranean. Our modern . . . civilization in its turn may serve its historical purpose by providing Christianity with a completely worldwide repetition of the Roman Empire to spread over...