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Acclaiming the Greek Invention of a Civic Identity - Eleatic Guest - 12-05-2014

Acclaiming the Greek Invention of a Civic Identity

The ancient Greeks introduced the idea of a civic identity, but unlike campus and salon Marxists claim they also upheld the ethnic principle, far from practicing citizenship politics "regardless of sex, nationality, or race".

I never thought otherwise, but apparently there are scholars out there who believe the Greeks did.