We Live in Ancient Greece

Isn’t it amazing that Ancient Greece managed to influence the whole world so powerfully! Democracy, theater, the Olympic Games, philosophy, astronomy, history and mathematics – all of this comes from

Ancient Greece, or Hellas, as the Greeks themselves called their country. This is why Greece is called «the cradle of Western civilization».

While other ancient civilizations boasted of the size of their territory and their innumerable armies, the Greecs created their own art, science, sports and politics, and the whole world still uses many of their ideas and inventions