Hellenic civilization as we know it was invented by the Science of Antiquity
The German obsession with becoming the superior race and culture outlined just about everything in the myth of modern "greece" today with early help of the biggest philhellene Lord Byron. The 'Science of Antiquity' scammed history.
It basically set the tone for all Western thought, the idea of civilization, which created ideas of progression and regression, of enlightened and barbarian. Europe thought the ancient Greeks were enlightened, and as Risto Stefov pointed out in his latest paper; in 1830 they saw everything that was natural about Modern Greece as "a taint" - so they removed everything, everything Oriental, Ottoman, Christian Macedonian, Albanian ... etc.
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