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In the philosophy of Michel Henry, Greek thought seems confined to the role of a foil, certainly necessary to eliminate in opposition a phenomenology, of Christian inspiration, of the flesh, but in itself worthless. We propose to show that Michel Henry forges in patience, and by relying on precise sources which we identify, a thought of Greek theoria whose synthetic power allows him to bring back not only Hegel and Heidegger, but also the essentials of 20th century phenomenology. It is ultimately in this capture of being by theoria (manifest since Parmenides) that modernity, in its “barbarism”, paradoxically plunges its roots. If, however, it is necessary to counter the Hellenic reduction of being to the lifeless exteriority of the world by elaborating a thought of the Scriptures, it appears that Henryan Greece is ultimately twofold – what on the one hand it dismisses and forgets, living flesh; on the other hand it experiences it and relates to it in the mode of an enigma.