Archaic Greek

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    Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers’ glory—to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.
    Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    The decline of a culture
    Mourned by scholars who dream of the ghosts of Greek boys.
    Stephen Spender (1909–1995)