What is so significant about the ways in which the ancient Greeks lived?
Lots of people are big fans of the ancient Greeks, and I don’t think it matters whether that person is a feminist lesbian or a straight-laced conservative, because as it just so happens, we’ve got quite a lot to thank the Greeks for. Why are they significant? For a start democracy evolved in ancient Greece, as did Philosophy, Maths and Science. The Greeks were also the guys who brought theatre to the world and poetry. Architecture is still influenced by Greek architecture (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns) and Greek sculpture stressed ideals of beauty and as such is still much admired to the present day. Furthermore, a surprising number of English words come from Greek roots, for example, cinema and agnostic. The first men to ever write down history were also Greeks. Of course, the ancient Greeks also instituted the Olympics which may have been Greek games in the ancient times, but which have been resurrected in recent times and are the most important sporting event of our times. Fu
