Were the Greeks really the peak of human civilisation?
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Were the Greeks really the peak of human civilisation?
Were the Greeks really the peak of human civilisation?
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No they were a pathetic dark age that should be forgotten.
they were the peak of fricking each other in the ass
also obviously no. every era after alexander they were vassals and buttfricked
Yes.
The Romans were
Romans sucked at literature and philosophy
Which advanced country in today’s world is famous for this? Russia? Iran? Lmfao
>Which advanced country in today's world is famous for [literature and philosophy]
Anon, I......
Which one? Which advanced country today produces literature and philosophy and stands out for it?
The United States of America
Most moronic claim posted here yet
>Learned English
>Has zero awareness of English language literature and philosophy
What was the point?
>Which one? Which advanced country today produces literature and philosophy and stands out for it?
Well the entire fricking West you dumbarse. Just because we don't have an Athens 2™, that doesn't mean that enlightenment philosophy and whatever fricking things developed after aren't great philosophical achievements. Or did the Greeks invent 3 major ideologies in 200 years?
>obviously unfamiliar with state of modern philosophy
Filtered
this is why his exists, to help the culturally illiterate
its the wise mans burden
>literature and philosophy
>I don't like ur opinion, therefore soijack
peak söyim
cope
The Greeks we're a very literary society. Their literary achievements really did not have a match until the Renaissance and for some reason 18th and 19th century Anglos wrote incredibly as well.
The Octavian era disagrees.
Obviously.
No.
No that would be moronic.
Explain
peak aesthetics
Greek society was just full of vitality and thumos
ΝΑΙ
>I will never be a famous Croton wrestler leading a charge against the Persians while wearing nothing but a lion skin and carrying a club
You will never understand how disappointing this is for me. Even if I did make it into the special forces the US government would never let me disrobe, wear nothing but a lions skin, and charge into combat with nothing but a club. Fascists.
A good case can be made for it.
Aesthetics - yes 10/10
Philosophy - yes 10/10
Mathematics - one of the best (they borrowed alot and had fierce competition from other civs in this area) at least 8-9/10
Warfare/military - 7/10
It was certainly the peak of the old world. “Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror and introduced her arts to the crude Latin lands” - Roman poet Horace.
Greek intellectual, philosophical and aesthetic culture were adopted by Romans, preserved by Muslims and fuelled the European renaissance and dawn of the scientific golden age. Greeks owe a lot to them for preserving the culture so well or it may have been lost to time.
> “Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror and introduced her arts to the crude Latin lands”
This is a meme phrase spouted by a man who lived nearly 200 years removed from the process of Roman and Greek culture mixing. He didn't know shit.
>Greek intellectual, philosophical
No, for the most part. Romans only latched onto the philosophy which already agreed with their cultrual values, hence why Stoicism was so popular.
>aesthetic
Yes
Yes. They or whatever came before them that was lost during the younger dryas period, in which case we'll never know.
Yes