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The Greeks are interesting and quite disproportionately important because they had such a host of great individuals. How was that possible? This point must be studied.
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The history of Greece has hitherto always been written optimistically.
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Selected points from antiquity: the power, fire, and swing of the feeling the ancients had for music (through the first Pythian Ode), purity in their historical sense, gratitude for the blessings of culture, the fire and corn feasts.
The ennoblement of jealousy: the Greeks the most jealous nation.
Suicide, hatred of old age, of penury. Empedocles on sexual love.