Hellenism and its Historical Role

In recent years, the numerous inscriptions and papyri discovered by archaeologists, as well as the new sciences of epigraphy and papyrology that have been developed, have illuminated not so much the campaigns of the various generals as the daily socio-economic life of the ordinary inhabitants of the various Greek cities spread according to Plato's figurative expression, "around the Mediterranean Sea, like the frogs around the lake."