Nikitas wrote:"They were ancient Greeks that has nothing to do with what u call as Greek"
You should read Cicero's description of Greeks and Greece. Written in 72 BC the comments pretty much reflect the same negative comments about Greeks made in the very forum. We the same faults then as we do now.
For all those that like to idealise ancient Greeks and think they were some kind of special race I have one comment: they owned slaves. Anyone who owns is far from perfect.
I agree the ancient Greeks were not some special "race", mere mortals, and hence subject to mistakes. What is unmistakable though, is that there would have been a concentration of special individuals, of such a state of mind, that something seeded and from that sprung forth an exponential development.
That they owned slaves at some time is neither here nor there, as the thinking at that time would have been a world apart from that of today; besides they would have met tribes of people, by comparison, so lowly in their outlook, compared to the Greeks, that it would not have seemed any more untoward to utilize them as slaves ..... just as we do not think too much of using intelligent Apes like Chimps for cruel experiments, even to this day!
In the Greeks favour, regarding slavery, was that they treated them relatively well, some even allowed an education (e.g. like the slave mistress of Alexander the Great). To crown it all they were the first to
give up slavery; thus making it even more inexcusable that thousands of years later, those calling themselves children of the Renaissance, still saw fit to enslave 10 million Africans.
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