Paul Norton; downhill since 1071? I believe the Greeks have been all the way downhill ever since L. Mummius smashed the Achaean League and sacked, depopulated, and utterly destroyed Corinth in 146 B.C.Ahh but “Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit” as the French and Germans are discovering now, as the Italians once did, just not quite in the way that Horace meant. |