Prodigious Powers
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 21 January 1982
The Greeks and their Heritages
by Arnold Toynbee.
Oxford, 334 pp., £12.50, October 1981,0 19 215256 4 Show More
by Arnold Toynbee.
Oxford, 334 pp., £12.50, October 1981,
“... to see that the archaising revival of Greek culture in the second century AD had some things to be said for it: the writers of the Second Sophistic are lively compared with the Byzantine imitators of the Classics. Toynbee has some interesting things to say about the Byzantine period, remarking on what the Byzantines called their oikonomia, their ability to ... ”