The ancient world, as the group of ancient states of the Mediterranean coast is called, laid the foundations for a future highly developed European civilization. Of course, every stage in the history of mankind is unusually valuable, but a special role, without a doubt, here belongs to the ancient, especially ancient Greek culture.
Her art, literature, science and philosophy were the starting point from which all subsequent achievements of European civilization started. The ancient world gave us magnificent examples of human genius that permeate all facets of our lives: poetry and prose, dramaturgy and sculpture, architecture and painting. A whole galaxy of brilliant names was born on the shores of the ancient Mediterranean.
Now everyone from the school bench knows the names of Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides and Herodotus, Thucydides and Democritus, Plato and Aristotle. The list of geniuses that the ancient world gave us can be continued indefinitely. In ancient Greece, the first theater and the first European philosophical treatises arose. Immortal ancient monuments of architecture.
Ancient Greek scholars, writers and thinkers, who initially used the achievements of eastern civilizations, ultimately significantly surpassed their teachers. It is the culture of the ancient world and its science that laid the foundations of modern knowledge. The Greek alphabet became the basis of the Slavic alphabet. Many of the names that we bear also have either ancient Greek or Roman origin. The influence of ancient culture on our daily lives is extremely strong even after millennia.
The ancient world gave the name to almost all scientific disciplines and laid down their fundamental concepts, which we now use. Grammar and arithmetic, geography and history, astronomy and medicine - they all come from antiquity and bear Greek names. From the Latin of the ancient Romans, many modern European languages originated. In Russian alone there are many thousands of words of Greek or Roman origin.
Lacking current technologies, our ancestors managed to raise to a sufficiently high level, for example, astronomy, medicine and mechanics. It was in antiquity that a map of the starry sky was created. By the way, cartography also has an ancient Greek origin. The ancient picture of the world, created by entire generations, was based on the daily observation of the motion of celestial bodies and the analysis of their cycles.
About three millennia separate us from the heyday of ancient art and science, but their strength and glory were eternal. Antiquity forever remained an unsurpassed school of painters, sculptors and architects. Modern masters again and again turn to ancient images, trying to unravel the secrets of harmony hidden in these eternal creations of human genius.
The phenomenon of the ancient world is still not fully understood. For example, Ancient Greece is a small patch of land lurking in the mountainous regions of the Mediterranean basin, the entire population of which probably did not exceed three hundred thousand people. And this little world gave rise to a gigantic spiritual culture that did not grow old and did not exhaust itself even after millennia. In this isolated world, the density of geniuses per square kilometer and per thousand people exceeded all conceivable and inconceivable norms. Is this not a great mystery of human history?
