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Originally Posted by Agrippa
Is that so much different from ancient Greece? The slaves and simple farmers of Athen, the helots of Sparta etc., do you think they were all like Socrates or Aristoteles? Little Perikles' and Solon? Hardly. If we deal with that kind of higher culture, we always deal primarily with a certain portion of the people in question. And in the end, the classic education was probably much more widespread and of course on a much higher level intellectually at least, in 19th century England, France or Germany, than it ever was percentage wise among the Greek speaking populations of ancient Greece we can assume.
Literacy alone...
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Agrippa, I know that. That's why I wrote
idealized Greeks, the "perfect" but still largely fake image that the European XIXth century made of the Greeks.