Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece was the area of the world now controlled by modern Greece, Turkey, and Macedonia.

Greece was responsible for much of modern philosophy and other notions of the world, as well as a great deal of art. Ancient Greek works had a great influence on the Romans. Despite the insistence of some early church scholars that the two were necessarily separate, the Greek tradition had a great influence on the early Christians.

The ancient Greek consciousness made great reference to the Trojan War as the point of cultural origin, and self-awareness as a society.

The Greek world never unified into a central polity. Rather, individual city-states fought for dominion over many centuries, weakening themselves, and allowing themselves to be conquered by Alexander the Great of Macedonia. Despite their conquest, Greek values adopted by Alexander, informed the world views of many of the Hellenistic kingdoms until their conquest by Rome.