It was they, the ordinary people, who bore Greek culture far into the Egyptian, Semitic and Iranian world, and modified and developed it in fruitful contact with older but more static civilizations.

• 真正的力量是那些将希腊文化传播到埃及人、闪米特人和伊朗人中去的普通希腊人，他们使希腊文明在和这些更古老、但更滞后的文明的交流中不断地得到更新和发展。