The first and the sharpest break with this common human experience came in ancient Greece.

最早与人类社会这个普遍传统,相悖且最为鲜明的例子就是古希腊

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When you get to say the middle of the nineteenth century and the work of the great English historian of Ancient Greece, George Grote, he begins his story in 776 with the Olympic Games.

十九世纪中叶,有一位研究古希腊的,伟大英国历史学家乔治·格罗特,他从公元776年的奥运会开始执笔

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