The dawn of the west - a portrait of greece and rome

1967. 112pp. 57 B&W Photographs, 2 maps. "'The Dawn of the West' is an evocative sketch of the classical world from the Hemeric Age to the break-up of the Roman Empire, roughly the first two thousand years of Western civilization. Mis Delahay sees the contribution of Greece and Rome to the West as a living culture in which the basic human values established by Greek and Romans persist with importance today. . Her portrays in selective cameos the life and thought and arts of the Age of Heores, Ionia and her neighbours,the islands of the Aegean, Athens and Sparta, Rome, Roman Gaul and Roman Britain. We are introduced tot he lands and the seas by descriptions from the author's own travels; Greek and Roman writers are quoted copiously in translation, and the landscape, arts and architecture are richly represented in photographs and drawings. The book, which could only have been written from deep scholarship, is not an outline of history but is a view of our own past in an historic age.".