====== As Opposed to the Romans... ======

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==== Authored by Frank Redmond, 2012 ====
Nigrinus’s first words were in praise of Greece, and in particular of the Athenians. They are brought up, he said, to poverty and to philosophy.
It’s curious how the idea that the golden ideas of antiquity derive from Athens in the ancient world, and if you read the evidence, there is a lot point towards this idea. Romans = brute soldiers and emperors; Athenians = philosophers and ideal statesmen [think Phocion]. http://lucianofsamosata.info/Nigrinus.html