They introduced us to politics, democracy, philosophy, metaphysics, literature, architecture, history, entertainment and tragedy. ... Women and slaves had no political rights, even in the democracies. ... The term, philosophy, was invented by the Greek people like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Thucydides, Herodotus and Pythagoras. Philosophy means "love of wisdom". ... Thucydides tried to explain the effects of politics on historical events. ...

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