4: Before Europe
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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Ancient Greece and the Scythians
From a western point of view, there's a certain way that the ancient Greece connects to you. The Greeks are already looking at the territory that we think of as Ukraine and they have a certain geographical view of it which is south to north. So from the point of view of that civilization, northward means more exotic. A lot of the Greek mythology is located in the north. In our part of the world, this looks different. You can still start with ancient Greece, as I say. There's ancient Greece. There's Rome. And so far so good. Does Rome fall? No, never falls.
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