The best demonstration of the false idea of liberation is that the Greeks never looked to Alejandro as a deliverer, they looked to Alejandro as a tyrant.
The Greeks believed in the efficacy of oracular advice, the Chinese used magic as protection against demons, shamanism flourished in India, and it still openly persists in central Asia.
To the Greeks, these were troubling signs, especially making his subordinates prostrate themselves before him- to the Greeks, this was sacrilegious, as a person was only supposed to prostrate themselves before a god.
The Greeks did not know at that time how to besiege a city, as we saw, by way of digging trenches and building towers, and battering the walls with machines that threw heavy stones.
The imagination of the Greeks peopled all the regions of earth and sea with divinities, to whose agency it attributed those phenomena which our philosophy ascribes to the operation of the laws of nature.
According to the Swedish Museum of Amber, over 2500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus discovered that when amber was rubbed against cloth, it produced sparks and attracted feathers, husks, and small wooden splinters.
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