Saturday, June 25, 2011

RESPECT AND HONOR

All nations deserve respect. But the ancient Greeks have to be rescued from many evils - for instance the dying breed who would idealise all Greeks, or the trivialisers who treat them as people of fantasy, fit for computer games, role play and mindless notching up for the mythology. The Greeks were a people, like any other people today, and the peculiar tensions of their societies catalysed cultural phenomena to which we owe much!

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