Roots of the Western Tradition Quotes

“Homer was the first literate European poet and he has never been surpassed. The Iliad and the Odyssey were the Old and New Testament of ancient Greece,...”
― C. Warren Hollister, Roots of the Western Tradition : A Short History of the Ancient World

“(...) A cynic might reflect that they had domesticated their farm workers in much the way that earlier peoples had domesticated the animals.”
― C. Warren Hollister, Roots of the Western Tradition : A Short History of the Ancient World