Honestly. It isnt.
Timothy Snyder: “The actual ancient Greece existed in a synthesis with the cytiens [sic?] which [are] people around the Black Sea and into the step and into Central Asia, the cytiens - ancient Athens, Pericles, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, the whole kit and kaboodle were only possible because of economic relationships and culture relationships with the Black Sea.
Which is reflected in Greek myth, it’s reflected in Greek tragedy, but we we have chosen not to see that, and to take the Greeks away from their own geography.
If you put the geography back in, you see a very interesting and different story. Things that we have categorized as Greek myth, turn out to be the history of the Ukrainian lands.
I’ll give you one dramatic example and then I’ll be done.
The Amazons.
So the Amazons figure as Greek myth.
There couldn’t possibly have been women warriors. The Greeks must have made that up for some cultural reason of their own.
But it turns out that on grave sites in Ukraine, there is evidence of female warriors for about a hundred years!
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