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1. Greeks have the stereotype from ancient times of being wiley negotiators and merchants. This from (Roman) satirist Juvenal, in the first century AD, celebrating the Odyssian sneakiness of
   “Greeks–! so educated and versatile– a Greek can convince you he’s a schoolteacher, a rhetorician, a mathematician, a painter, an augur, a magician; tell a Greek to fly, and he’ll rise up in the air!
   They are also diplomatic, which according to Juvenal is a bad thing. “They’re alway sucking up to people; if you say “I’m hot,” he’ll start sweating. . .” Successful merchants? Kill a Greek, he’ll rise out of his grave to sell you his shroud. . . “

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