Ancient Man

THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK. As for art and the sciences, these did not interest them very much. They regarded with suspicion a man who could play the lute or who could write a poem about Spring and only thought him little better than the clever fellow who could walk the tightrope or who had trained his poodle dog to stand on its hind legs. They left such things to the Greeks and to the Orientals, both of whom they despised, while they themselves spent their days and nights keeping order among the thousand and one nations of their vast empire.Van Loon, Hendrik Willem is the author of 'Ancient Man', published 2004 under ISBN 9781419206825 and ISBN 1419206826.