As for my (our) ancestors (you and many others here could be Hellenes too AFAIK) I'm sure they were smarter than their grandchildren who went bankrupt while they had THE solution right in front their eyes since 2009... They built Democracy, temples that stand tall after 25 centuries in a seismic country, music, physics, math...
Well, the Italians blotched it too, several times ...
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[ click on the image for a bigger non-truncated version ]But of course the architecture is not accurate, and the symbols are totally anachronic...
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