"The rediscovery of the classical past was a widespread European passion, but nowhere was it bound up with national identity to the extent it was in Germany."
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That article also says:
- Greek literature provided ‘a gallery of incomparable monuments to heroic-political mankind’, he claimed, that contained important lessons about hard work and the submission of the individual to the civic good.