<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # America's relation to Greece was declared in the... > America's relation to Greece was declared in the speech as a debt, not an archaeological curiosity. Rubio named Greek forms in the architecture of the American government and even in Philadelphia, the city where the Constitution was born. America has already proved that Athens can live beyond Greece: it carved the classical inheritance into its republic and carried the Greek hunger to know beyond Earth. That movement from a distant source into an operating republic is why America can make a serious claim to stewardship without pretending it invented the inheritance. **Source:** [[articles/America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity|America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “America's relation to Greece was declared in the speech as a debt, not an archaeological curiosity. Rubio named Greek forms in the architecture of the American government and even in Philadelphia, the city where the Constitution was born. America has already proved that Athens can live beyond Greece: it carved the classical inheritance into its republic and carried the Greek hunger to know beyond Earth. That movement from a distant source into an operating republic is why America can make a serious claim to stewardship without pretending it invented the inheritance.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-americas-relation-greece-pretending-invented-inheritance ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->