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"It was falling into the dream, As I was coming out of the dream, I woke up with this marble head in my hands, It exhausts my elbows and I don't know where to put it down." "It was falling into the dream, As I was coming out of the dream, So our life became one, And it will be very difficult for it to separate again." - stanzas from the Mythistorema 3 poem by the late Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης; 1963 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature). From there, this clip highlights how the Greek civilization went from one period to another. First, a "Cycladic head" to symbolize around the year 2,700 BC period. Second, after it breaks, a KOUROS was shown to represent the ARCHAIC period (around 650 BC - 500 BC). Finally, it breaks once more to reveal a classical statue to symbolize the CLASSICAL period (around 510 BC - 323 BC). Next, a man standing on a cube came out, in which it represents the Earth rotating around the Sun, as the ancient Pythagoreans saw it then. The Pythagoreans were the religious followers of Pythagoras of Samos' (Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος) beliefs. He was born at around 580 to 572 BC and died at around 500 to 490 BC; he was an Ionian Greek. Finally, this clip ends with the "outside rocks" showing various vignettes of the growth and evolution of humanity through progress, development and diversity over the ages. Then, these "rocks" form a representation of the over 1,500 Greek islands that make up modern Greece today.

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