...between Greek and Roman literature and society which were often to the disadvantage of the Romans. 'We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece', Shelley wrote in 1821 in the preface to Hellas, crediting Rome merely as a means of...

...table of contents one finds the following passage from Percy Shelley's preface to his 1821 poem Hellas: "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece." For the Grecian Guild, the term "Greeks" signified a purposefully ambiguous set of associations, allowing...

...the sense that Hellas is a classic Hellenistic text that famous remarks from its Preface, such as, "We are all Greeks — our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece," as well as the Winckelmann-like sentiment expressed at one point by the play's chorus...

...that connects the many of humanity to the originary One. As Shelley observes in the preface to Hellas, "We are all Greeks — our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece. But for Greece, Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors...

...art.""4 Just a few years after Blake wrote these lines, Shelley would famously proclaim in Hellas, "we are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis of our ancestors, would have...

...later political debate and discourse. According to Shelley, 'we are all Greeks', in the sense that 'Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their roots in Greece'. This is at best misleading.25 But we are all Greeks insofar as crucial aspects of our cultural heritage,...

...the Greek war of independence against the Ottoman Empire. In this context the poet Shelley declared: "We are all Greeks.... Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts all have their roots in Greece." 7 Throughout Western Europe, the Greek war of independence was viewed...

...respective impacts on the greater world and the future. Yes, as Shelley proclaimed of the Western World, "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their roots in Greece" (and in Rome, I hasten to add), but so are we, globally, all jazzers. Athens gave birth to democracy,...

...247-268). New York: Guilford Press. CHAPTER 41 Greek Families Kyle D. Killian Anna M. Agathangelou We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece. — PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Preface, to "Hallas" r ercy Shelley's Western formulation...

...beauty seized the imagination of the Romantic poets as a superior, older alternative to Christianity. 'Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece,' mused Shelley, with studied exaggeration. 'But for Greece, we might still have been savages and idolaters.'53...