What is unique and remarkable about Greek culture, compared to contemporaneous cultures, is the drive toward secular knowledge—a thorough turnaround from the earlier tradition organized entirely around myths, exemplified by the Greek pre-Socratic physicists and sophists.
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“what is remarkable and unique about greek about greek culture as opposed to the other cultures that were contemporaneous with it is that in greek culture there is a drive towards secular knowledge... this is a thorough turnaround from the earlier tradition of thought which has been entirely organized around myths”
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