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Title: With the world's people; an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : Clark E. Ridpath
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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amongany other ancient people. He not onlyfed himself plentifully, abiindantly, butalso tastefully. He was not as theRoman or the Assyrian a gourmand bynature and practice. His eating was arational action, and his selection andadaptation of food was a process of rightthinking and good taste. Already, in the age of Homer, thenatural condition and distribution of foodwas a matter of prime im- Food-takingportance. The epic concept i^pt^^^^ftryof* of food-taking AVaS wholly the Greeks. free from the coarse and degraded notionswh ich many nations have attached there-to. With Homer bread and the distri-bution of bread, the meat of the sacrificeand its savory smell, were subjects ofpoetic thought. With him the eating ofhis heroes.was as poetical as their battle.His resounding hexameters knew no dif-ference between the clang of the drinkingcups and the lifting of roast meats fromspits and beds of coals on the one side,and the clang of shields and the burialof dead heroes on the other. The one
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rilE GREEKS. El LED A.YD JLIRA-ET. 109 comes the cen-ter of the civil-ized life. was the means of develoijing and en-nobling his warriors, and the other themeans of their destruction. From the earliest ages the table of theGreek became in some sense the centerGreek table be- of hif civilization. Hereall of his tastes were culti-vated. Beginning with thegratification of his palate and thestrengthening of his physical nature, hegave free rein to his thought. He spoke,and his friends at the board responded.There was elegant conver.se. The Greektable was the first point of light whichshone out of the old barbarism; and thegarland of flowers which the nude wait-ing-boy handed to the lady of the house,who reclined at the board between herlord and her father, and with which herdelicate hands crowned their brows, wasthe emblem and promise of the art andpoetrj of the Greeks. These fundamental facts in the life ofthe Hellenes soon passed into their or-HeUenic society ganic development. In theea

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