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During the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., the ci

During the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., the civilization of ancient Greece underwent a cultural shift which has often been referred as the "Greek Miracle." The Golden Age which resulted from this shift is historically important because many of the Greek innovations from that time have had a powerful influence on the subsequent development of Western civilization. One of the most notable features of the Greek (or Hellene) culture is that it was strongly concerned with the concept of humanism. The Greeks recognized that the powers of intelligence and reason made human beings unique among the creatures of the world. This pride in human affairs was reflected in such things as the treatment of deities as human-like beings and the glorification of the human body in sculpture. Related to their concern for humanism, the Greeks were also responsible for the development of the concept of the individual self. This acknowledgement of the self led in turn to the creation of democratic ideals. The height of Greek civilization was characterized by the existence of prosperous city-states, among which Athens was preeminent. It was also characterized by important achievements in science, mathematics, the arts and architecture. Among the most notable of the Greek achievements were those which occurred in the field of literature. The great literary works of this period include the historical writings of Herodotus and Thucydides, the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, and a wide variety of poetic works. In the fourth century B.C., the humanistic literature of the ancient Greeks culminated with the philosophic writings of Plato and Aristotle.

It is interesting to note that it was during the centuries immediately preceding this flowering of Greek culture that Phoenician letters were first used in the creation of a Greek alphabet. The Greek alphabet was the first effective alphabetic script in the history of human...

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