The The Greek culture and history is so influential on the Western world and other places, not just the Western world,

we often don't realize something we've known our entire lives originated with them,

or was continued by them after inheriting it from some older culture.

Greek influence is so ubiquitous that sometimes we discover that something we've known all our life

had Greek origins, but we didn't know that part. We didn't know it was Greek to begin with,

but we've known it all our life, like inventions, philosophy, people, myths. Some of those we do

know, but we lack context, right? Most of us know a decent bit about their mythology. All of you

have heard of Zeus and Athena and Aphrodite, but about how they were worshipped and how the Greeks viewed them? It's different than how we view them, for sure. It's very different. You've also heard surely about Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. We learned that in like seventh grade or something here in the

U.S. But you've mostly heard about their ideas. You've mostly heard about their philosophy and their

writings, not them and not the context in which they lived and how their ideas impacted people

when they were new, when those ideas were fresh.

And they did. They lived in the era of this episode. Well, Socrates didn't. He died at 399,

and we're about to hit 382 here. So we're past him, but the other two are in this episode.

One of the less pleasant examples that we were reminded of from ancient Greece

is the constant back and forth between democracy and oligarchy,

which, hey, that's still playing out now.

Hasn't stopped, really, 2,400 years later, go back even farther.

Yeah, we're still playing that game of Thrones.

In this era, as we've said, it was not always, but often, very bloody.

And it's not all one-sided, even if you prefer democracy as I do, and most of you probably do,

overrule by rich folk, the downsides of both are on display

here. This isn't going to be in all democracy is just always a shining example here. To be fair,

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