(October 29, 2013 at 2:34 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: I've found Greece to be fascinating through and through. So many different and zany ideas arose, many of which have left a profound impact. The roots of philosophy, democracy and so many other things it's hard to list.
Greece is not the root of either philosophy or democracy. It is just painted that way by 19th century Romantics.