{"id":87170,"date":"2024-02-06T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=87170"},"modified":"2024-02-05T16:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T21:37:03","slug":"greek-history-and-civilisation-part-1-what-makes-the-greeks-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/02\/06\/greek-history-and-civilisation-part-1-what-makes-the-greeks-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek History and Civilisation, Part 1 &#8211; What Makes the Greeks Special?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cnZZViGRrVI?si=-gIdbhNnKq-wYxcr\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>seangabb<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Feb 1, 2024<\/p>\n<p>This first lecture in the course makes a case for the Greeks as <em>the<\/em> exceptional people of the Ancient World. They were not saints: they were at least as willing as anyone else to engage in aggressive wars, enslavement, and sometimes human sacrifice. At the same time, working without any strong outside inspiration, they provided at least the foundations for the science, mathematics, philosophy, art and secular literature of later peoples.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Books by Sean Gabb: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDZhZUNMai0yNHJSX3RCM05mNGRxcjdzLXVXUXxBQ3Jtc0tuSWV1bnlXX2dtaVdTTGhzaWZKYzBLUktqMnVWMUNIbURnLW93VzU2YmxqOGIwZzBONjFxTnNPeFFUYlJZVklkVUhaOUE5M012dzl3Y1MwR3BGeDcta0lMX2lQTlg1NWJLMnFvUVE4Rl9hY0hqamZFaw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fkindle-dbs%2Fentity%2Fauthor%2FB0034Q418E%3F_encoding%3DUTF8%26node%3D266239%26offset%3D0%26pageSize%3D12%26searchAlias%3Dstripbooks%26sort%3Dauthor-sidecar-rank%26page%3D1%26langFilter%3Ddefault%23formatSelectorHeader&#038;v=cnZZViGRrVI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/kindle-dbs\/e&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His historical novels (under the pen name &#8220;Richard Blake&#8221;): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbE1tLXlfblBTRmx2LV95eXVZbDloTVN6UFRBQXxBQ3Jtc0tuUkU1MkhxcExTcXpJa2NEM0hGVEFFTmFTdndLa2RqY2VGeC1KRk5WVmd2OEwtU3QxalhSOXJ3bncxSWx6OWdoeFdoNFFUcVZ2Tzc5dmpELS04bGFHN1RoMnB5bzRTRXJLZ0JXLTVfdXBYZTF3d3lkRQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FRichard-Blake%2Fe%2FB005I2B5PO&#038;v=cnZZViGRrVI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Richard-Blak&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>If you have enjoyed this lecture, its author might enjoy a bag of coffee, or some other small token of esteem: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa1dLMnRsQ24zNFhPcVhlZWpMenE4Y2lnQWFvZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuM1VUcV9WMEhTa1BVU255dU9JczVTb3BkUHJzZzhWdnVyUzg1bHZOWGlweEdUOHVUU2syTlNnQkRLN3pObTZzNTlJdENMX25iTmNSZDdZN2c0ZXF5ZUpXclZxWVpXZ0VNRDJzaTAzREJ3ZF9ZdW1jaw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fhz%2Fwishlist%2Fls%2F3HSH7EF410352%3Fref_%3Dwl_share&#038;v=cnZZViGRrVI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/hz\/wishlist\/&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seangabb Published Feb 1, 2024 This first lecture in the course makes a case for the Greeks as the exceptional people of the Ancient World. They were not saints: they were at least as willing as anyone else to engage in aggressive wars, enslavement, and sometimes human sacrifice. 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