Ancien Ancien
A WINDOW TO THE PAST
by benjamin Croen
I
’VE BEEN A HISTORY and mythology buff since I turned three, when I received a copy of D’Aulaires’s Greek myths for my birthday. The stories in that book showed me an exciting world I’d never seen: the world of the past. The myths excited me even though I knew they weren’t real. No fiction I’d ever read had made me feel so connected to an actual place and time. Through these stories and others I read throughout my elementary school experience, I started to appreciate how our modern civilization has descended from the world of two thousand years ago or more.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Imagine Magazine - Johns Hopkins - November/December 2010