Why do we have the Renaissance, the baroque period the classical period, the romantic period and so on?

为什么我们会有文艺复兴时期,巴洛克时期,古典主义时期,浪漫主义时期

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For us, we can start not so all the way back at Classical Greece, but with Alexander the Great, and the beginning of Hellenization; that is, the Grecization of the eastern part of the Ancient Mediterranean.

我们不必追溯到古典希腊时期，而从亚历山大大帝及希腊化初始讲起;,就是古代地中海东部地区的希腊化。

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It's a literary genre that dates back to late classical Greece and which typically charts the trials and tribulations of a hero, in many cases the trials and tribulations of a virginal heroine.

它是一种文学流派，可以追溯到古典希腊时期,这种流派规划了一位英雄了考验和磨难，许多情况下是给一位童贞的女英雄的考验和磨难。

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The Greeks of the classical period always thought there was an earlier age that was much better than the age in which they lived, an age in which men were heroes.

古典时期的希腊人认为过去,有一个比他们所处年代,更好的时代,一个英雄辈出的时代

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Was it the world in which tradition says Homer himself lived, the transition first to the Archaic and then to the Classical Period, the period in which we think about the dawn of the polis?

或是那个传说中荷马曾经生活的时代吗,那个时代先经历了古代的转变,而后到了古典主义时期,也就是我们所说的城邦萌芽的时期

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Well, if you take a look at the Greek civilization let us say in the classical period, those other cultures wouldn't have had a clue what the Greeks were doing, so different was the Greek experience from theirs.

如果你看一看希腊文明,让我们以古典时期为例,其他文明,都不会理解希腊人在做什么,希腊人与他们的经历是如此不同

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