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To: Sam who wrote (247383)	3/14/2014 3:21:05 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541824

For my defense of the ancient Greeks I will bring in Will Durant. He only credited the ancient Greeks with having a contemporary mindset. He was sort of the last word on the history of civilization. Will Durant: "The persistent effort to subordinate fancy to reason, is the dominate quality of the Greek mind. Ergo Greek literature is modern, or rather contemporary, we find it hard to understand Dante or Milton, but Euripides and Thucydides are kin to us mentally and belong to our ages. This is because, though myths may differ, reason remains the same, and the life of reason makes brothers of its lovers, in all times and everywhere."