I meant that with the perspective of someone in mind who lived back then and would’ve thought the Greeks were the bee’s knees. If you lived back then and thought someone was doing better than the Greeks, you would feel humbled because the prevailing idea was that the Greeks accomplished a lot of things that they didn’t actually accomplish.
“The ancient Greeks” those didn’t exactly have very good democracies.
I meant that with the perspective of someone in mind who lived back then and would’ve thought the Greeks were the bee’s knees. If you lived back then and thought someone was doing better than the Greeks, you would feel humbled because the prevailing idea was that the Greeks accomplished a lot of things that they didn’t actually accomplish.