The Echo of Greece

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"Greeks" by which she means Athenians (she even uses it in the title).In the first chapters, she starts to tell about how freedom was a big part of Athens in the early fifth century B.C. "The conception of what freedom means dawned upon the Greeks. The quality they valued most could not be expressed by any English word" (21). It talks about how Greece created the first self-government in the world and this government was an expression of how men could live together in freedom. The book then goes into talking about is "Athen's Failure," which is their loss of the Peloponnesian War. "Greed started the war." said Thucydides, the man who historically recorded the war after fighting in it. The war left the city of Athens untouched, but the people afterwards were devastated because they were never able to recover the peace and "freedom" that they had before the war. The middle chapters focus more on the academic part of Athenian culture. They talk about the different teachers that were ...

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