Ancient world: at the dawn of European civilization

The ancient world, as it is customary to call a group of ancient states of the Mediterranean coast, laid the foundations for a future highly developed European civilization. Of course, every stage of the history of mankind is extremely valuable, but a special role, no doubt, belongs to the ancient, especially the 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 life: 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, which the ancient world gave us, can be continued indefinitely. In ancient Greece there was the first theater and the first European philosophical treatises. Immortal ancient monuments of architecture.

Ancient Greek scholars, writers and thinkers, who originally used the achievements of the Eastern civilizations, ultimately far exceeded 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 wear, too, have either Ancient Greek or Roman origin. The influence of ancient culture on our daily lives is extremely strong even after thousands of years.

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 are Greek names. From the Latin of the ancient Romans, many modern European languages have taken place. In Russian alone there are many thousands of words of Greek or Roman origin.

Not possessing the 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. An ancient world picture, created by whole generations, was based on everyday observation of the movement of celestial bodies and analysis of their cycles.

From the heyday of ancient art and science, we are separated for about three millennia, but their power and glory have been eternal. Antiquity has always remained an unsurpassed school of painters, sculptors and architects. Modern masters again and again turn to ancient images, trying to unravel the mysteries 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 piece of land lurking in the mountainous regions of the Mediterranean basin, whose entire population probably did not exceed three hundred thousand people. And this little world spawned a gigantic spiritual culture that did not grow old and did not exhaust itself even after thousands of years. In this isolated world, the density of geniuses per square kilometer and per thousand people exceeded all conceivable and unthinkable norms. Is not this a great mystery of human history?