RE: Ask one of Jehovah's Witnesses
June 20, 2015 at 12:27 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2015 at 12:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The greeks themselves were fairly famous adopters (not quite as prolific as the romans..on that count), yes...but hellenism (in this context) only refers to the cultural phenomenon of the transmission of greek thought (however arrived at...borrowed, or stolen) that swept the entire western world for a long period of time. The persians were successful, but never like this, and never to this extent...again...in the western world (maybe because the greeks fucked them up and took control of their territory at the begining of the period? one of those original "clash of worlds" events where the victors take the spoils and write the history). It was just about impossible to prevent, given that the greeks were writing other folks stories for them...in greek, and we lean on it heavily today. Their idioms and notions would have crept in by default, by accident, had people not valued them...which they did, and people -did- value them as well.
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