akritas
02-01-2007, 04:16 PM
As we know many "scholars" claim that the ancient Greeks adopted or "stollen" several cultural thinks from other civilizations(mainly Egyptian).As the "evidence" for the Greeks' Egyptian origins derives primarily from modern cultural aspirations and has virtually no foundation in historical fact.
The question of Greek cultural dependency is more complicated and in many ways more interesting.
There is no doubt that Greeks were influenced by other neighboring cultures during the whole course of antiquity.
The issue is rather:
What is meant by influence? In what respects?
And by which foreign cultures?
How large a role did Egypt-Phoinician-Pelasgian e.t.c. play in the development of Greek civilization ?
The question of Greek cultural dependency is more complicated and in many ways more interesting.
There is no doubt that Greeks were influenced by other neighboring cultures during the whole course of antiquity.
The issue is rather:
What is meant by influence? In what respects?
And by which foreign cultures?
How large a role did Egypt-Phoinician-Pelasgian e.t.c. play in the development of Greek civilization ?