Ancient Greeks Interacted With Pre-Roman Civs

https://greekreporter.com/2024/02/13/the-ancient-lemnian-language-and-its-connection-to-etruscan/

The ancient language Lemnian, which was spoken on the Greek
island of Lemnos in the first millennium BC, was very closely
connected with the Etruscan language, as uncovered inscriptions
have found.

There have been 16 inscription remnants found that display
Lemnian, a now-extinct language thought to have some relation
to the Raetic language of the Alps and the Etruscan language
of northern, central and south-western Italy, all forming part
of the Tyrrhenian language group.

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   The ancient Greeks/proto-Greeks WERE great travelers.
   Other ancient civs were not limited to their immediate
   environments either. Lots of travel, lots of interaction.
   The overall picture is much wider/richer than the cheap-o
   history books would suggest. Likely bits of even northern-
   Euro civs found their way into Greek civ/legend. If you
   could at least walk there, people DID.

   There is no "pure" Greek/Roman/Whatever civ. They were
   aware of each other, borrowed from each other, did
   trade and intellectual commerce with each other. This
   may have even extended to "eastern" civs - India, China.
   Some of what Plato wrote DID seem rather parallel to
   what early Buddhists were saying.

   It is CONVENIENT to talk about "Egyptian Civ" or
   "Greek civ" or "Babylonian civ" or "Chinese civ",
   but in Truth they did NOT exist in isolation.
   Everybody borrowed bits. The picture is complicated.