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the Greeks learned sculpture from the Egyptians, and the alphabet from the

Phoenicians, and pottery and farming and astronomy from the Sumerians, and iron
and horse-rearing from the Hittites, and coinage from the Lydians.

Some people see the Greeks as very much like us; if you want to show them that way
you'd talk about their democratic government, their court system, and their poetry.

Other people see the Greeks as very different from us; then they'd talk about Greek
animal (and sometimes human) sacrifice, the isolation and powerlessness of Greek
women, and the importance of slavery in the Greek world. They might talk about the

importance to the Greeks of the agon between nomos and physis.

I think the most interesting approach is to show all of these things: the Greeks were
different from us in some ways, and like us in others. We learned some things from

the Greeks, and they learned some things from other people. Let the children
themselves decide which things are like us and which things are different, and which
things they would want to imitate and which things they would not.

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GREEK RELIGION

Truth to Teach (Source)

Acts 17:16 ‘While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly
distressed to see the city full of idols.’

Acts 17:22-23 ‘Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said:
“Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of

worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN
UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I
am going to proclaim to you.”’

Ecclesiastes 3:10-11, Romans 1:20 Man’s search for God

 To consider Greek religion, their gods and belief in oracles.

 To consider Greek religion as a key to their culture.

 To compare Greek religion with Christian beliefs.

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