Haha oh wow, I thought I was the only person who finds the newer greek history and culture more interesting than the ancient one. The ancient one is brilliant (yet not as idealistic as it's often presented) but I find the newer one more... human and earthly, with the common people struggling to survive through shitty decades, not die of starvation while fighting stubbornly against occupying armies, harming themselves over petty shit, trying to rebuild their country from it's ashes again and again....

Same goes with the norse history, I like the modern more than the ancient.