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Greek Light on World History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Arnold Toynbee
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Approach.: The subject of this talk is in one sense a rather personal one. I am venturing to say something about my own approach to History. I had the good fortune to be born just not too late to come in for the old-fashioned ‘Early Modern Western’ education in the Greek and Latin languages and literatures; the first grown-up job that I did was to teach Greek and Roman history for the School of Literae Humaniores at Oxford; and, in afterwards exploring other provinces of history, I have always found my way into them through a Greek gate. Greek history has been, for me, the key to world history.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 45 , November 1950 , pp. 1 - 15
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1950

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1 The paper here printed is based on a talk given at an open meeting of the British School at Athens in December 1948, and repeated in London in February 1950 at a general meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.