The Inverted Gmirkin Hypothesis

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Secret Alias
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The Inverted Gmirkin Hypothesis

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What physical evidence is there to disputing the idea that the Greeks stole books from the "barbarous" people around them and invented the pre-Socratic philosophers, Philo and Aristotle developing them because they were embarrassed at how ignorant they were as compared with their subject people.
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FWIW the Sassanids seem to have claimed that Hellenistic culture was stolen by Alexander from Iran/Persia.

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It’s five o’clock somewhere
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