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Durant on Civilization and the Greek Miracle
Will Durant surveys how exile, conquest, and faith shaped Judea and Greece, linking Jewish endurance from temple destruction to a library in Jerusalem with classical Greece’s birth of reason, democracy, and art. He contrasts Egypt, Judea, and Greece as epic, tragic, and lyric, concluding with a reverent meditation on Parthenon ruin and renewal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yahweh
Daniel
God
Antioch
Alexandria
Rome
Carthage
Marseilles
Jerusalem
Old Temple
Greece
Hillel
Christ
Judas Maccabaeus
Judas
B. C
Palestine
Temple
Titus
Alte Pinakothek
Munich
Kaulbach
Abbi
Parthenon
Areopagus
Diohysius
Socrates
Kanan
Moira
Pericles
Athene
Acropolis
Chartres
Rheims
Great Library of the Hebrew
Alves
Prometheus
Egypt
Judea
Endymion
Will Durant