02-08-2012, 06:50 PM
Quote:While I may not be a rocket scientist, there is evidence enough to prove it is true enough.
The politics, well there are always people who wish to prove them selves superior to everyone else.
Can you find supply the names and articles of these professionals who are rewriting history?
Western society, and a few others, have benefitted immensely from Ancient Greece's culture,
it's not really debateable, it is there for all to see. 8-)
Benefiting from is not the same as claiming we're essentially the same/descendents of. History is much more complex.
Hollywood for example owes a ridiculous debt to Homer in terms of structural technique etc. On another hand though we call it "democracy" however providing a logical link that far back is difficult, whereas its quite easy to trace the origins of much of our political thought to Germanic tribalism/Roman influence. Yes we've been influenced in interesting ways from the Renn onwards, that is not to posit contiguity.
Jass
