The birthplace of one poet was contested by seven cities.

But was the Hellene the first to deny the old barbaric faith?
No.

My son, that glory is ours; against brutalism our fathers erected God; in our worship, the wail of fear gave place to the Hosanna and the Psalm.

So the Hebrew and the Greek would have carried all humanity forward and upward.

But, alas! the government of the world presumes war as an eternal condition; wherefore, over Mind and above God, the Roman has enthroned his Caesar, the absorbent of all attainable power, the prohibition of any other greatness.
"The sway of the Greek was a flowering time for genius.