>>16609
That's retarded. Your average Greek barely knew that Egypt existed until they were both under Roman rule. Besides that, the Egyptian way of thinking was pretty different from the Greek way of thinking. Egypt always sort of trended toward a sort of quasi-monotheism. Obviously there's the well-known example of the Aten controversy, but even before that it was common for Egyptian thinkers to claim that all of the important gods were just aspects of Ra, and near the end of classical Egyptian religion it was common for Egyptians to worship Isis exclusively. Greece, on the other hand, always trended toward polytheism. Greek gods were basically just superpowered human beings, so giving them metaphysical, mysterious properties such as all being the same person somehow would sound nonsensical to their highly materialistic way of thinking. And you couldn't take two steps in Greece without looking at a river or tree or something with its own minor god associated with it. Another way in which they differed was that Egyptian heroes were priest-magicians who saved the day by having magic spells memorized, while Greek heroes were cunning warriors who saved the day with strength and wit. Egyptians essentially lived in a world of vagueness and rampant incomprehensible magics, while Greeks lived in a world where everything was clearly defined and magic was materialistic if it existed at all. The central theme of Egyptian thought was maat or divine order, which represented cosmic, supernatural good. The central theme of Greek thought was basically defining things such as courage, piety, or featherless flat-nailed bipeds.
I just don't really see a basis for comparison.
