How would i start an introductory paragraph for how greek civilization influenced our own civilization?
You could make a list of ancient Greek contributions to western civilization: Science & Mathematics Art Architecture Philosophy (western philosophy begins with Thales and is heavily influenced by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle) Greek religion (the Greek gods and myths are part of our everyday vocabulary) Language (a large amount of English came from Greek) The Alphabet (the Greeks were the first to make an alphabet that had both consonants and vowels. Prior phonetic writing systems did not have vowels) Christianity was spread through Greek. The New Testament was originally written in Greek, and the Old Testament had been translated into Greek (called the Septuagint) under Alexander the Great. Democracy (The first known attempts to form democratic polities was with the Greek city-states.) I would begin with something dramatic like “The story of western civilization truly begins with Greece.
