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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Sam who wrote (305550)7/24/2016 4:04:56 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 542122
 
I don't know what you mean below and do not want to put words in your mouth, so can you elaborate.

All I am saying is that the ancient Greeks not only began the human species walk down the path to wisdom and knowledge, around 600 BC but history is quite clear that after the ancient Greeks were totally destroyed and 99% of all their books and libraries were destroyed, around the birth of Christ, until the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg almost 1500 years later, there was no thinking in Europe that even remotely compared to the sophistication of the ancient Greeks. The Greeks probably had hundreds of great thinkers any one of which was more sophisticated than anything that I could find for the next 1500 years or so after their demise.

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Sam: "Koan, people love to say a lot of stuff about "the Greeks" as though Sparta, Athens and Thebes (to name just three of many cities that used one dialect or another of Greek) had the same culture. Yes, there were similarities, they all had Homeric mythology/religion (but emphasized different gods and had different customs), they had very different ways of living (utterly incompatible in fact), some of what they shared was a love of wealth and power and slavery and they were very warlike.

I don't really care what speculators say about "ancient Greece". They say all sorts of things and much of it is fascinating nonsense.

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