 Greece's entry would be seen as a 'fitting repayment by the Europe of today of the cultural and political debt that we all owe to a Greek heritage almost 3000 years old'. If Sir lan's rhetoric is overblown it none the less has a certain elegance. The...  A Concise History of Greece - Page 2de Richard Clogg - 2002 - 291 pagesAperçu limité - À propos de ce livre
 | David Lowenthal - 1998 - 362 pages
...European Community was termed by a British diplomat a "fitting repayment by the Europe of today to the cultural and political debt that we all owe to...a Greek heritage almost three thousand years old." Alas, Greeks take formulaic tribute at face value. Yes, they invented democracy, Plato and Socrates... | |
 | Tom Gallagher, George Kelly - 2001 - 344 pages
...British historian of Greece, that Greece's joining of the European Union was 'fitting repayment by Europe of the cultural and political debt that we all owe to a Greek heritage almost 3,000 years old' (Torode 1993). The idealistic and broad-minded strand of British public opinion which,... | |
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