Isn’t it amazing that Ancient Greece
managed to influence the whole world so
powerfully! Democracy, theater, the Olym
pic 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 innu
merable armies, the Greecs created their
own art, science, sports and politics, and the
whole world still uses many of their ideas
and inventions