Greco-Roman Culture and Civilization

Perhaps the most obvious place to start answering this question is by looking at Greco-Roman literature. One may note that the Great Books of the Western World set published by Encyclopedia Britannica includes the works of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Thucydides, Hippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Epictetus, Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Plotinus, and Augustine. Any liberally educated person should know who these authors are and should have read at least some of their writings--and there are, of course, still other classical authors whose writings can be read with profit and enjoyment now.

Some people would want to argue that surely nothing in writings from 1500 to 2500 or more years ago could be relevant to modern society, but such an argument must founder on consideration of the easily demonstrable relevance of most of these works. HomerÆs epic poems are the oldest literature that has been preserved continuously in the West, a

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