[BirAdam]

Yeah, the “Age of Heroes” was just Ancient Aliens for the Greeks: “we can’t do it, so it can’t be human work”

[AndrewKemendo]

Exactly, it wasn’t some view to the past as the root of great culture.

If you read the actual Polybius you’ll see that there was no ideas of evolution or that we’re in the same category as other living things