Props to Pericles and the other inventors of Democratic government.
Props to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Especially Aristotle, since he was Alexander's tutor.
Herodatus is pretty interesting too, and I'm pretty impressed with the memmory of the blind poet Homer.
Archimedes, Pythagoris, Sophocles, Euripedes...the list goes on.
The ancient Greeks were just so damn clever. First people with real plumbing in Europe, first automated clocks (water based), and have you ever seen the Antikythera Mechanism? Yep...Greeks invented the first analog computer...probably the most sophisticated piece of equipment on the face of the earth for 15-20 centuries.
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
When there are more laws, there are more criminals.
- Lao Tzu
