Some Greek words & names:

aretê
(excellence)
nous
(mind)
enthousiasmos
(filled with theos)
pathos
(a quality of pity, sympathy, or sorrow)
theos
(god)
Logos
Cosmic reason - the source of world order and intelligibility.
Sophia
(wisdom)
(Cosmic reason the source of world order & intelligibility
also, "word", "reason", and "plan"
tropos
(Turning, change)
ethos
(The character, disposition, or basic values peculiar to a specific people, culture, or movement.
strophe
chorus moves in one direction.
antistrophe
chorus moved in the other direction.
dithyramb
was "the fair song of Dionysus" from which Greek drama came.
drama
like dromenon - Greek word for ritual, meant "a thing done".
gymnastic
the Greek word for atheletics, meant literally "excercises performed naked".

The Greeks who interest us today were exceptional people, usually imprisoned, exiled, or slain by the more truly representative Greeks of their time.

Seldom though about the future.

Orsippus, in 720 B.C. lost is shorts in the middle of a race inspiring the future contestants to run naked.

It was Icarus who flew too close to the sun and was also the son of Daedalus, the father of sculpture.

Hypocrites - A Thespis creation (someone who pretended).

Sophist - Originally (from "sophia" - wisdom) meant was simply a wise man skilled in some special way. By the 5th century B.C., the Great Age of classic Greece, a Sophist was a teacher who travelled about giving instructions in successful living.

Idealism and the search for perfection.

Dionysus' other name was Bacchus. The "twice born" father of Tragedy (distant perspective) and Comedy (close up).

"The Greeks were inspired by models from Egypt and imagined that all civilization had originated there."

How about Lucian, Phaedrus, or Protagoras?