Arnold Toynbee

The Byzantine Greeks' Heritage from the Hellenic Greeks

'A people's prospects are affected by its image of its past' - Arnold Toynbee presents an exclusive extract from his book on the Greek sense of the past, The Greeks and Their Heritages.

Published November 1 1981

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