The Greeks were civilised compared to their neighbours 2500 years ago, yes, but for some reason recently, they decided to abandon all hope of pushing cultural and economical growth forward. "GERMONEY!!! GIB MONIES PL0X!!!"
This is quite irrevelant, the Greeks are victims of an economic system (initiated by European bureaucrats) which is currently proving to fail, and unable to be reformed.
German leaders are not even realizing that they are not helping Europe, but serving the financial market, if we do not reform Capitalism and regulate the markets, we will be forever victims of crisis cycles, economically speaking, the present crisis marks the start of a classic Kondratieff downswing (Kondratieff exposed the fact that capitalism always faces long term (50 to 70 years) cycles of boom followed by depression, that has historically been proven to be right).
And should I remind you where that world crisis started? Don't be surprised, new crisis will hit us again and again.