Folks might want to check out an interesting post over at the Toynbee Convector, where David Derrick has glossed a collection of essays (The Legacy of Greece) as a three act ‘tragedy’:
A Three-Act Tragedy of Greek History
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Thanks for posting. This stuff might be clarified in a few more posts this week, on why Rome is important, or isn’t, which you may or may not want to track. They may make it make more sense. Or not …!