My impression was that Plato and company were elitist homosexual socialists, that democracy was practiced in only one city-state, Athens, where it dismally failed, and that the Greeks, including the vaunted Spartans, ultimately were rolled over by a bunch of mountain hicks known as the Macedonians under Alexander the Great's father. According to archeological finds, even the Pythagorean theorem appears to have been lifted from Babylon.
Given the accomplishments of our respective civilizations, I do believe that if a time portal could be opened up, the ancient Greeks should come and humbly study at our feet. More likely, though, any such visitors would probably stay as illegal immigrants working in fast-food restaurants: "Cheezburgher! Cheezburgher! Cheezburgher!"
Given the accomplishments of our respective civilizations, I do believe that if a time portal could be opened up, the ancient Greeks should come and humbly study at our feet. Study what?! Let me see - for example in philosophy it must be the school of pragmatism represented by C. S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Hmm.
Now which writer would humble Euripides and Aischylos?