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This is a survey of the relationship between the legacy of ancient Greece and Greece as it is today and in the (mostly) recent past. With the Renaissance the Greek legacy became far more important to western Europe than to Greece itself. Indeed the people of Greece called themselves Romans during the middle ages. Greece became a vassal state under the Ottoman Turks and others. Byron, Shelly, and others gave rise to Greek pride in their heritage and an impetus for them to fight repeatedly for freedom. In order to obtain help from the west, Greeks promoted as a longstanding debt the contributions from their ancient heritage to western civilization.

This recourse put them in a bind. Reliance on their ancient achievements in art, philosophy, rhetoric, science, and war (Persians) was thus of some assistance to getting help in the short term but had unfortunate consequences.

The underside of ancient Greece was downplayed, such as the frequent wastage of its youth in warfare, its imperialism, and its dependence on very many slaves. Indeed no little of what the ancient Greeks produced was clever propaganda in furtherance of imperial aims and standing. Modern greeks asking again for help then suffered all the more from unfair comparisons with their glorified past as it exists in the western mind, comparisons used against Greece, for example, in argument against their deserving forbearance in the recent debt crisis, which crisis is addressed tangentially.

Also western archaeologists and adventurers looted ancient Greek artifacts with the rationale that they were preserving them from the current citizenry. Many remain in the west, in part for the same given reason.

Recommended for anyone interested in the subject.
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