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When he died (of natural causes) in 133 b.c. , his subjects were dismayed to learn that he had bequeathed his entire kingdom to the Romans.
Yet, they bequeathed to the world a rhetorical phrase that was pregnant with meaning deeper than many of them may have intended.
This book can do nothing, of course, to relieve us of the sort of vocabulary that makes a garbage man or dustman into a waste removal consultant, but it is enormously helpful in explaining, in a straightforward way and (unfortunately) without rancor, what bureaucracy has bequeathed us.
He was fascinated by the Japanese-print flatness bequeathed by the Impressionists; in Maid of the Mist, Niagara Falls (1915), he managed to cheat scale so much that the boat looks like a bathtub toy against the swirl of rocks and spume.
Athenians left an enduring legacy of concepts and ideas for humankind but they also bequeathed a remarkable number of buildings and artifacts that tell us about their lives.