{"id":100665,"date":"2026-05-21T02:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=100665"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:44:29","slug":"the-ancient-greeks-01-what-made-them-special-c-why-greece-still-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/05\/21\/the-ancient-greeks-01-what-made-them-special-c-why-greece-still-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient Greeks: 01 &#8211; What Made Them Special? (c) Why Greece Still Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s_mendSxn88?si=NFOUFZjpt6r8eu1X\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>seangabb<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 31 Jan 2026<\/p>\n<p>Given the brutality and inequality of Greek society, a fundamental question arises: why do the Greeks matter at all?<\/p>\n<p>This section answers that question by examining Greek self-awareness and historical reflection. It contrasts Greek civilisation with Near Eastern empires such as Assyria, and focuses on the writings of Thucydides and John Stuart Mill to explain why Greek history had consequences far beyond its own time.<\/p>\n<p>The Greeks were not morally superior, but they developed habits of analysis and criticism that allowed their ideas to outlive their political power.<\/p>\n<p>This section forms the intellectual turning point of the lecture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seangabb Published 31 Jan 2026 Given the brutality and inequality of Greek society, a fundamental question arises: why do the Greeks matter at all? This section answers that question by examining Greek self-awareness and historical reflection. It contrasts Greek civilisation with Near Eastern empires such as Assyria, and focuses on the writings of Thucydides and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,7],"tags":[1527,288,732,576,1468,1151],"class_list":["post-100665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","tag-ancientgreece","tag-archaeology","tag-athens","tag-philosophy","tag-seangabb","tag-sparta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qbD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100666,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100665\/revisions\/100666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}