Excerpt from The Legacy of Greece and Rome This must be my apology for the second chapter, on the Early Civilisations of Egypt, the Middle East, and the Eastern Mediterranean. I have no intention of portraying these civilisations: I merely wish to indicate the context of Greece and Rome in the history of the ancient world. On similar grounds'i would attempt to justify the almost hopeless effort to gather up in two brief chapters (viii and IX) the main threads of interest in the history of the Decline and Fall of Home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.