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But in the drama , the direct , straight-forward , un-German Greek had no Nature so immediately presented from which to make copy . But this idea was dismissed long ago by Otto Neugebauer , who noted that the Greeks had already used omicron to denote the number 70 . " ( Note that ancient Greek has no exact equivalent for English " to complain " . The ancient Greeks had held enlightened views on these matters , Thales believing that all life originated in water and Anaximenes holding that life came into being spontaneously from the primaeval slime . If the Archaic and Classical Greeks had direct experience with four-horse chariots on the battle field , it was probably from battles in far away places , such as Persia or other eastern lands whose landscape consisted of huge plains . Long before that , ancient Athenians created a Greek culture that valued human liberty and dignity , and modern Greeks have demonstrated that preserving freedom is a powerful motivating force . According to Johnson ( 38 , 43 ) , the Greeks had a ceremony to ensure that the ecstatic principle would be honored : they sacrificed a kid goat ( representing Dionysos ) , cut it into seven parts ( like Dionysos ) and stewed it in its mother 's milk . The Greeks have rendered to Bacchus , Hercules , AEsculapius , Apollo , and others who were mortal men , the titles of gods and heroes . In the next generation afterwards , according to the same authorities , Alexander the son of Priam , bearing these events in mind , [ those mentioned above ] </I> , resolved to procure himself a wife out of Greece by violence , fully persuaded , that as the Greeks had not given satisfaction for their outrages , so neither would he be forced to make any for his . The word person is Latin , instead whereof the Greeks have prosopon , which signifies the face , as persona in Latin signifies the disguise , or outward appearance of a man , counterfeited on the stage ; and sometimes more particularly that part of it which disguiseth the face , as a mask or vizard : and from the stage hath been translated to any representer of speech and action , as well in tribunals as theatres . Since the Renaissance , Latin and Greek have been an important presence in British poetry and prose . " " I think that the Greeks have really provided a lot of the social experience at Southwestern . That is to say , the Greek had a dependent and subservient linguistic relationship to its Semitic parent . Should the ancient greeks have felt guilty because they could n't create stone arrowheads and axes by striking rocks together ?