What was the secret of the Greeks? Their language?How did this tiny place gave us >philosophy>every science there is>theater>every type of government >army formation >first actual alphabet >Homer's epics>Socrates >Plato >Aristotle >Alexander the greatPlus countless other thingsThere has to be an actual reason. I put my pennies on the greek language. We should all learn the language of those people.
>>18629315Geography
>>18629315The Athenians didn’t have to work (their slaves did) and so had immense amounts of free time with which to think
>>18629315>What was the secret of the Greeks?Boypussy.
>>18629321Every culture enjoyed that back then
>>18629326No
>>18629315The answer is the first thing you listed. Spiritual philosophy, that's their "secret". They practiced a religious system of belief which led to the development of principles of Logic, mathematics such as calculus, higher minded ways of organizing government, and many ways of improving the individuals life through a practiced & dedicated pursuit of Truth. They debated spiritual philosophy in their pagan temples for hundreds of years, in order to develop systems of metaphysics that - to this day - influence & define "western civilization" as we know it. It's a intellectual-heritage that grew out of pagan temple academies, which Abrahamists have claimed credit for, once their military-cult reached imperial level and they made "paganism" illegal + demonized.
>>18629315Greeks had time to do all that because they had slaves.
>>18629315Mainly that they were scores of quarreling societies trying to one up one another. Just like post Roman Europe. See how quickly Europe faded into irrelevancy once imperial peace was imposed on it from the outside by two and then one superpower.
>>18629391What are you trying to say? Medieval Europe was competitive but only in the early modern period when we got pagan texts did Europe become epic again
>>18629315You are grossly overestimating them. There is no "secret". It was more or less a lucky accident.
They were Mediterranean bvlls, not snowniggers living in huts and eating whale meat.
>>18629315OP Geography
>>18629344Even then, their paganism is fundamentally different than any other pagan religion. Why is that?>>18629414The highest point of civilization can't be an accident. >>18629431>>18629318Other places had similar geography and didn't produce such things.
>>18629457>The highest point of civilizationLol. Right now is the highest point of civilization.>can't be an accident.It is. Live with it.
>>18629457>Even then, their paganism is fundamentally different than any other pagan religion. Why is that?You have to learn the history of civilization from Sumer through Babylon, and into ancient Greece to truly get an answer for what you're asking. It all connects and it's a fascinating timeline, with a mind blowing amount of verified archeology, but there is no short answer. Study the timeline (ancient history) and start around the time of Mesopotamia.
A lot of it is just wrong. Not to deny the accomplishments of greek thinkers, but they often get hugely overrated. They didn't invent "philosophy", they didn't invent "all fields of science" or "every form of government". They made advances in these fields, yeah, but not the greatest advances (the greatest by far occured in the last centuries) and they didn't invent these fields. You could even argue, that the Greek heritage hindered the birth of modern science instead of being its fundament. The centuries in European history, in which Greek philosophy exerted its greatest influence (early medieval age) were the ones with the worst scientific output. The early modern era was (despite the more antique aesthetics on the surface) a move away from Greece. The truly astonishing period in regards to scientific/cultural/technological accomplishments was the early modern period - 16th, 17th, 18th century. That's, when most of the important stuff happened.
city statesthey always do this kind of stuff
>>18629315The Greeks had individualism while let literally everyone else was a hive mind.
>>18629315Because Romans loved their culture. There were stoics, cynics, epicurean teachers all throughout Rome for hundreds of years after Zeno, Plato, and Aristotle
