ancient world as a group called the ancient states of the Mediterranean coast, laid the foundations for the future of European civilization highly developed.Of course, every stage of human history, extremely valuable, but a special role, no doubt, here belongs to the antique, especially the Greek culture.
Her art, literature, science and philosophy were that the starting point, which started all subsequent achievements of European civilization.The ancient world has given us magnificent examples of human genius that permeate all facets of life: poetry, prose, drama and sculpture, architecture and painting.A whole galaxy of brilliant names was born on the shores of the ancient Mediterranean.
Now everyone at school knows the names of Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Democritus, Plato and Aristotle.The list of geniuses who gave us the ancient world, is endless.In ancient Greece, there was the first theater and the first European philosophical treatises.Immortal ancient monuments.
Greek scholars, writers and thinkers, was originally used to achieve the Eastern civilizations, ultimately significantly surpassed their teachers.It is the culture of the ancient world, and it laid the foundations of modern science knowledge.Greek alphabet became the basis of the Slavic alphabet.Many of the names that we wear, too, are either ancient Greek or ancient Roman origin.Influence of ancient culture on our daily lives is extremely strong, even thousands of years later.
ancient world gave the name of virtually all scientific disciplines and laid their fundamental concepts that we now enjoy.The grammar and arithmetic, geography, history, astronomy and medicine - they all come from the ancient Greek names and wear.From Latin, the ancient Romans took many modern European languages.In only one Russian has many thousands of words of Greek or Roman origin.
Lacking current technology, our ancestors were able to raise a sufficiently high level, for example, astronomy, medicine and mechanics.It was established in antiquity sky map.By the way, mapping also has ancient Greek origins.Antique picture of the world, created by generations, based on everyday observations of the motion of celestial bodies and the analysis of their cycles.
From the heyday of ancient art and science separates us approximately three thousand years, but their power and glory appeared eternal.Antiquity forever remain unsurpassed school of painters, sculptors and architects.Modern masters again and again turning to the ancient images, trying to unravel the mysteries of harmony hidden in these timeless creations of human genius.
phenomenon of the ancient world is still not completely solved.For example, ancient Greece - a small piece of land, hiding in the mountainous areas of the Mediterranean basin, the entire population which probably does not exceed three hundred thousand people.And this little world has spawned a huge spiritual culture, which has not grown old and exhausted, even thousands of years later.In this little world of the isolated genius density per square kilometer and per thousand population exceeds all conceivable norms.Is not this is the great mystery of human history?
