What? There’s plenty of genetic evidence that shows that modern Greeks are directly descended from their ancient counterparts, the lineage going even further back beyond Archaic Greece to the Mycenaeans. For the time that Athens already existed it is even more clear-cut. Nobody disputes that populations did not intermingle over the past 3000 years (and Greeks are genetically similar to other Southern Europeans like Italians and Romanians), but your statement is absolutely wrong unless you are referring to something other than population genetics.
What? There’s plenty of genetic evidence that shows that modern Greeks are directly descended from their ancient counterparts, the lineage going even further back beyond Archaic Greece to the Mycenaeans. For the time that Athens already existed it is even more clear-cut. Nobody disputes that populations did not intermingle over the past 3000 years (and Greeks are genetically similar to other Southern Europeans like Italians and Romanians), but your statement is absolutely wrong unless you are referring to something other than population genetics.
I believe they mean culturally, but that’s a silly argument too.