Originally published in 1967.
Edelstein\'s contemporaries asserted that the Greeks and Romans were entirely ignorant of a belief in Progress i.
He analyzes the ancients\' belief in a tendency inherent in nature or in man to pass through a regular sequence of stages of development in past, present, and future, the latter stages being--with perhaps occasional retardations or minor regressions--superior to the earlier.
Ludwig Edelstein characterizes the Idea of Progress in Greek and Roman times.
Originally published in 1967