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The lecture's opening problem is how the Greeks produced humanity's greatest civilization in roughly two hundred years despite not being dominant for long.
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Greek History
The lecture's opening problem is how the Greeks produced humanity's greatest civilization in roughly two hundred years despite not being dominant for long.
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"And even today, there are many who consider Plato the greatest philosopher who ever lived. There are many people who read... The Republic by..."
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"you have a very nuanced understanding of Greek history, Roman history, and the Jewish Bible, the Hebrew Bible. Right? And in fact, at this..."
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"...the world and not Sparta or Athens which for most of Greek history were the dominant powers okay so for me to explain what..."
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"...a major power. Then you have Sparta, which for most of Greek history was considered the best military, right? And then you have, sorry,..."
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"Okay, so we are starting an overview of Greek history. Remember the story so far. We talked about the Bronze Age and where Mycenaean..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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