ABSTRACT
The disciplined and well-armed Greeks easily defeated the Persian army, but Cyrus was killed. Thucydides, like most Greeks, believed in the general truth of the traditions: modern writers disbelieved. Mycenae itself, for example, had become a place of no importance, and the Asian coast, Homer's own home, had become Greek. All Classical Greek art has to a remarkable degree that intellectual quality which shows itself in the logic and the certainty of its construction. For the intellectual strain in Classical Greek art we must turn to the Hellenes - and not without evidence. Both in Greek and in Latin, if a statement happens to be complex, consisting of one or more leading ideas accompanied by any number of explanatory or qualifying ideas, the whole complex can be set out, and normally is, with perfect clarity in a single sentence.
