上游充通大 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY "The Greeks,however,combined a unique sense of mankind's high place in the natural order and the possibilities it provided with a painful understanding of its limitations.This is the tragic vision of the human condition that characterized classical Greek civilization.To cope with it, they urged human beings to restrain their overarching ambitions. ----Donald Kagan“The Greeks, however, combined a unique sense of mankind’s high place in the natural order and the possibilities it provided with a painful understanding of its limitations. This is the tragic vision of the human condition that characterized classical Greek civilization. To cope with it, they urged human beings to restrain their overarching ambitions.” ----Donald Kagan