Their task was to perform sacrifices to the gods and look after the temples, and, as in Egypt, they were in charge of sacred knowledge. 他们的职责是照管给神灵的祭献品和神庙，就像在埃及那样，他们负责神圣的事情。 Th...
In time, most of the continent was subdued by the descendants of these invaders, 当时，该大陆的大部分被这些侵略者的后裔征服， who, like the Spartans, maintained a distance between themselves and the peoples they had conquered. 他...
Although we know almost nothing about the people who built Mohenjo Daro, 尽管我们几乎一点不知道什么人建造了摩亨佐.达罗， we do know that different people arrived much later, and that they are ancestors of the people who inhabit...
And now let us go to the opposite end of the world. 现在让我们来到世界的另一端， To India and then to China, so that we can find out what was going on in these vast lands at the time of the Persian wars. 来到印度，然后去中国，这...
Both wisdom of thought and beauty of form were to be united by the Athenians in a third art: the art of poetry. 在第三种艺术中，即在诗艺中，雅典人把思想的睿智和形式的美统一起来。 And here, too, they invented something...
All we have are little paintings on pottery on vases and urns. 我们只见到陶制器皿上、花瓶上和坛子上的小型画像。 Their loveliness tells us what we have lost. 这些画像如此之美以至我们能够想象得出来我们丧失了...
When you look at the works of Greek artists, and see how fresh and simple and beautiful they are, 看希腊艺术家的作品时，你会发现它们是多么清新、简单和美好， it is as if their creators were seeing the world for the first t...
The Ionians in the colonial outposts may have been ahead of them here, 在殖民地的伊安尼尔人已经比他们先走了一步, for they had already reflected on what the world was actually made of, and what might be the cause of all events and...
And so he gradually worked his way up until, by 444 BC a number as beautiful as the time it represents, 就这样他逐渐获得了最高统治权并自公元前444年起这个数字像它所表明的时代一样美, he was, in effect, the city's sol...
For a while individual noblemen curried favor with the people to win their votes, and then seized power. 在一段时间里一些贵族附和民众获得他们的选票，然后夺取了统治权。 Rulers like these were called tyrants. 这样的统治...
