the greeks themselves were selling off treasures left and right
the lion gate, the temples of corfu, etc - were discovered by anglos who loved the Golden Age so much that they discovered it
without Palladio the greeks wouldn't know the ratios of their own buildings
it was anglos (at the time, a peak civ) who LOVED the peak-ness of Periclean greece so much as to unearth it, reveal it, love it, revere it - MUCH moreso than the greeks themselves, who by that time were happy to sit in the sepulchres of their higher ancestors, worshipping zeus no longer, but some endless string of christian saints
precious little of peak greece would be known without the love of the peak anglos