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   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Snidely used thar keyboard to writen:   
   > On Thursday, J. J. Lodder pointed out that ...   
   >> occam  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 19/09/2024 06:59, Aidan Kehoe wrote:   
   >>>> Another one that stuck for me was "metic", "resident foreigner in a   
   >>>> Greek city state," apparently not related to meticulous.   
   >>>   
   >>> Try 'hermetic' as a related concept. A 'foreigner' in ancient Greek was   
   >>> someone from another city state, even if that was a city in Greece.   
   >>> 'Greece' did not become an entity until much later.   
   >>   
   >> Depends on what you want 'entity' to mean.   
   >> Those ancient Greeks certainly saw themselves as a cultural entity,   
   >> with a shared language and culture. This extended to 'Greater Greece'.   
   >> It was only the narrow sense of a political entity that was   
   >> inconceivable to them,   
   >>   
   >> Jan   
   >   
   > I have a better sense of how Egypt came to be a cultural entity than I do for   
   > Greece.  On the one hand, the political development of the winning Pharoahs   
   > is easy to read about; on the other, my histories of Greece generally begin   
   > with the last king of Athens and the rise of the early democracy, which seems   
   > to be well after there were several city-states that considered themselves to   
   > be Greek.   
   >   
   > /dps   
      
   And so I turn to the rabbit hole:   
      
      
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   application, by a large number of people, than the world can readily   
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