Quote Originally Posted by Steppe Merc
In that case the Romans and Greeks are barbarians. They were very superstitious. The Greeks even had a temple to a god they didn't know the name of! They were just as superstitious as the Iranians or Germans.
That is true religion is the bane on all societies its still evident today. I mean we still have religions to explain the unexplainable, the fact is the greeks actively tried to find natural answers to these question. I know alot of other cultures were doing the same at the time. To be honest i only know the history of medicine and i know for a fact most development doing the classical era was due to the greeks and then the romans adopting and again developing it. Then it all went into the crapper with the invasion of the barbarians. The dark ages were called that for a reason its commonly accepted humanity as whole went backwards during that time due to everyone adopting the invaders way of life.