Hermes wrote:It's the genius of the Greeks that even as a ruin the Parthenon is still an enduring symbol of human achievement.
Had Greeks built that it would've crumbled within 20-30 years…
Hermes wrote:It's the genius of the Greeks that even as a ruin the Parthenon is still an enduring symbol of human achievement.
GreekIslandGirl wrote:Get Real! wrote:GreekIslandGirl wrote:Get Real! wrote:It’s a shame they loved it so much because now they want to take it and put an end to your “Hellenic” dreams!
Thank you. Finally you've got it, Einstein! They loved Greece so much, they had to have it. Now, ditto for their 'new love' Cyprus.
Don’t get too excited Oracle, because it’s not your ancestors that built those!
I'm not the one claiming an unbroken umbilical cord connection to specific mud huts or erection of only one temple. I know my ancestors were great movers. They moved around all over the Hellenic world and one even got as far as mapping 'Bretannia' whilst its illiterate natives picked berries in readiness for becoming 'Europeans'.
supporttheunderdog wrote:GreekIslandGirl wrote:Get Real! wrote:GreekIslandGirl wrote:Get Real! wrote:It’s a shame they loved it so much because now they want to take it and put an end to your “Hellenic” dreams!
Thank you. Finally you've got it, Einstein! They loved Greece so much, they had to have it. Now, ditto for their 'new love' Cyprus.
Don’t get too excited Oracle, because it’s not your ancestors that built those!
I'm not the one claiming an unbroken umbilical cord connection to specific mud huts or erection of only one temple. I know my ancestors were great movers. They moved around all over the Hellenic world and one even got as far as mapping 'Bretannia' whilst its illiterate natives picked berries in readiness for becoming 'Europeans'.
I take you have heard of Starr Carrs in Yorkshire, and the raised pathways in the Somerset levels,which represent earliest carpentry in Europe, and the Ness of Brodgar, (which predates Stonehenge, and the many other temples, not just Stonehenge, which dotted the landscape of Britain, etc. all of which demonstrate a sophisticated British (in the geographical sense) civilisation, with a complex society, that belies your underlying racist assertions about the British living in mud huts and eating berries - and at that time the Greeks were illiterate too until they borrowed Linear A from the (non Geek) Minoans to make linear B, in about 1600 BC (when the Ness of Brodgar, Stone henge etc were already old)
GreekIslandGirl wrote:
What kind of 'message' is that? Is it in English?
Sotos wrote:GreekIslandGirl wrote:
What kind of 'message' is that? Is it in English?
It is ancient English as spoken by those who made the Stonehenge... oh wait... those people didn't speak English or any other Germanic language!
supporttheunderdog wrote:Sotos wrote:GreekIslandGirl wrote:
What kind of 'message' is that? Is it in English?
It is ancient English as spoken by those who made the Stonehenge... oh wait... those people didn't speak English or any other Germanic language!
Yes, and whoever was living in the area now forming Greece was not speaking Greek at the time the "Cathedral of the North" was built at the Ness of Brodgar. The earliest stone buildings on that site, not mud huts, are now thought predate the earliest known phase of Stone Henge.
The effort to build those places required a complex organised and settled society, which you seem unwilling to accept.
supporttheunderdog wrote:Sotos wrote:GreekIslandGirl wrote:
What kind of 'message' is that? Is it in English?
It is ancient English as spoken by those who made the Stonehenge... oh wait... those people didn't speak English or any other Germanic language!
Yes, and whoever was living in the area now forming Greece was not speaking Greek at the time the "Cathedral of the North" was built at the Ness of Brodgar. The earliest stone buildings on that site, not mud huts, are now thought predate the earliest known phase of Stone Henge.
The effort to build those places required a complex organised and settled society, which you seem unwilling to accept.
GreekIslandGirl wrote:supporttheunderdog wrote:Sotos wrote:GreekIslandGirl wrote:
What kind of 'message' is that? Is it in English?
It is ancient English as spoken by those who made the Stonehenge... oh wait... those people didn't speak English or any other Germanic language!
Yes, and whoever was living in the area now forming Greece was not speaking Greek at the time the "Cathedral of the North" was built at the Ness of Brodgar. The earliest stone buildings on that site, not mud huts, are now thought predate the earliest known phase of Stone Henge.
The effort to build those places required a complex organised and settled society, which you seem unwilling to accept.
Whatever language the Greeks were speaking during this neolithic period would be related to the one we speak today. This is more than you can say for these Norwegians stones piled together a few thousand years ago probably by the people Pytheas the Greek called the Orkas (now Orkneys ) - present day English is so far removed from any languages used in the UK over more than a few centuries ago.
http://www.greek-thesaurus.gr/Neolithic ... reece.html
Sotos wrote:supporttheunderdog wrote:Sotos wrote:GreekIslandGirl wrote:
What kind of 'message' is that? Is it in English?
It is ancient English as spoken by those who made the Stonehenge... oh wait... those people didn't speak English or any other Germanic language!
Yes, and whoever was living in the area now forming Greece was not speaking Greek at the time the "Cathedral of the North" was built at the Ness of Brodgar. The earliest stone buildings on that site, not mud huts, are now thought predate the earliest known phase of Stone Henge.
The effort to build those places required a complex organised and settled society, which you seem unwilling to accept.
I do not question the abilities of ancient people... some of them did some great things for their era. But you seem to confuse places (e.g. Britain or Cyprus) with nations (e.g. English or Greeks).
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