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Did Athenians consider Spartans Greek? Their societies were very different from each other, weren't they?Ancient Greeks were considering anyone non Greek as a "foreigner". They also considered as a Greek, anyone who had Greek education and was acting as a Greek. "Ellines isin i tis Ellhnikis pedias metehondes". (phonetic) The notion of the race was of no importance to the Greeks. Intellect and education was what mattered...
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