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Re:The Griffin Warrior Tomb Upends What We Know About the Ro... by pjc50 on Thursday January 05, 2017 @04:24PM (#13331539) 

    The isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece!
    Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
    Where grew the arts of war and peace,
    Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
    Eternal summer gilds them yet,
    But all, except their sun, is set.
-- Byron

Pre-classical Greece is about the earliest period of the "West" we have good documentation for, and is tremendously "romantic" to study. However beware of thinking of Greece as the wellspring of civilization; this will lead you to overlook the Arabic and Chinese civilizations.

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Re:The Griffin Warrior Tomb Upends What We Know About the Ro... by Amezarak on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:42PM (#13333494)
Do you have any recommendations for reading about Arabic civilizations? I was under the impression that Arabia was, until Mohammed, an unimportant, remote backwater, vastly overshadowed and sometimes controlled by nearby (sorta) empires - Egypt, Rome, Persia, Sumeria, Lydia, Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, et cetera.
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