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"Invaluable to all students of Greek History" What the Greeks Have Done for Civilization The Lowell Lectures of 1908-9 By John P. Mahaffy, C.V^O., D.C.L. Of Trinity College, Dublin 8vo, CONTENTS Causes of Greek Pre-eminence; Greek Poetry; Greek Prose; Greek Art, Part I.; Greek Art, Part II.; Greek Science ; Grammar, Logic, Mathematics, Medicine ; Philosophy, Speculative and Practi- cal ; Theology ; Politics and Sociology. A series of papers in which this eminent scholar, who has all his life devoted himself to a study of things Hellenic, sums up concisely his conclusions regarding the influence of Greek civilization upon modern life. These essays take a wide sweep, and present the author's conclusions regarding the modern world's political, social, literary, artistic, and philosophical heritage from the Greeks. Q. p. PUTNAM'S SONS New York London