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Why were the ancient Greeks incredibly smart?

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Regarding the Ancient Greeks, and as Steve Theodore said above, there is a paradox. For the first time in history in Ancient Greece, there exists a society who can constrain and contain itself, without appeal to self-appointed authorities, to specialists, without hierarchy with the tight meaning of the word. read more

Maybe there were statistical outliers, a few great minds, among a very dumb group of people. That could apply to any group. But I'll accept the assumption for purpose of discussion. There are several possibilities. Nutrition: Being littoral peoples, there was a lot of seafood. read more

The Greeks were curious, they allowed and respected scientific thinking. Not all societies moved beyond pure superstition of the natural world. Now, the Greeks were not unique in this respect, just more records of their life still exist, and in the West, we have more in common with them. read more

As for other fields, sure there existed a lot of what we now characterize as, e.g., literature (the Sumerian/Akkadian [i]Epic of Gilgamesh), philosophy (the Indian Vedic literature) and medicine before 500 BCE and outside the Greek world; it's just that our civilization tends to define these subjects as they were defined by the thinkers that shaped them in our civilization. read more

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