Most "Westerners" didn't know about or give a shit about Classical Civilization (Anglos, Germans, etc - Italian, Gauls, Spaniards, yes obviously) before their ancestors were compelled by force or persuasion to accept Christianity which connected them to the outside world and historiography. Even then it took them another 1,000 years before they started caring about Classical Civilization outside of their strict Christian framework (and when the Renaissance first emerged it was very slow to spread elsewhere - in large part because it was explicitly driven by Italian chauvinism - Petrarch saw the Germanics as something like a rampaging savage Russian horde - and VGHing over their ancient glory).

>>17848545 (OP)
>inb4 muh Indo-European Apollonian spirit
Okay the Iranians and Indians are also "Indo-European." Pre-Christian Germanics/Celts were similar to - say pagan Balts or Finns - in how they viewed the world which was cyclic, dominated by magic, and focused entirely and exclusively on themselves and their immediate neighbors.