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How much of Greek culture was borrowed from the Persians?

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The gradual appropriation of Persian culture by the Greeks during the rise of Athens and the Delian League is an under-appreciated aspect of western history, which just happens to contain some still-relevant lessons. The first important bit of con... read more

Early Greek culture would have been influenced by earlier eastern civilizations, as well as the much closer Minoan and other Helladic era peoples, and that would have been pre-Persia. By the Hellenic/early classical period the Medes would have conquered the Lydians and annexed the Ionion Greeks sparking their revolt and then the two attempted Persian invasions of European Greece. read more

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