GRAECULUS: A 2,000-Year-Old Hubris
It was Latin writers who first laid the groundwork for anti-Hellenism—and spread it widely. Cicero was among them.
Graeculus: “little Greek”—frivolous, vulgar, insignificant.
Cicero conceded that the Greeks possessed talents and skills, yet he questioned the one thing that mattered most: their moral character.
Among the Greeks who aligned themselves with Rome were the so-called “clients.” Their protectors were known as patroni (patrons), while the protected were called clientes (clients).
This Roman system of “clientelism” was later adopted with great success by the European Powers within the Ottoman Empire—covering for their agents and securing loyal instruments of their policy.
Epicurus and Lucian were the first, in the Hellenistic age, to sow the seeds of atheism. They were followed by Oenomaus of Gadara, who tore superstition to shreds with biting irony.
Lucian, in turn, invoked two of antiquity’s boldest spirits: Heraclitus, who laughed at human ignorance—“laughing at their lack of knowledge”—and Democritus, the “laughing philosopher,” who ultimately wept at human folly—“lamenting their senselessness.”
A RadioNarration (StandUpRadioNarration), tracing a History that continues—shifting across eras and reappearing in new guises, as we have often said…
[Source: “Xenocracy, Anti-Hellenism and Subjugation” by Kyriakos Simopoulos]