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grbs-131	Michalopoulos, Andre	The Classical Tradition	1958	8	.pdf	application/pdf	2414	88	61	That I was reared in this tradition has afforded me the greatest satisfaction in life, and I shall never forget the abbe Guerin, a humble village priest in France, who, when I was eleven years old, introduced me to the magic of Homer and Vergil by making me read them aloud in the· original and so teaching me ancient Greek and Latin as living languages. There were of course great oriental civilizations which flourished before the time of the Greeks and from which they inherited some characteristics, as attested by an oriental strain in primitive Greek art.	cache/grbs-131.pdf	txt/grbs-131.txt