Ancient Greece

==Legacy==
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The civilization of ancient Greece has been immensely influential on language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. It became the ''[[Leitkultur]]'' of the [[Roman Empire]] to the point of marginalizing native [[Iron Age Italy|Italic]] traditions. As [[Horace]] put it,
:''Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artis / intulit agresti Latio'' (''[[Epistles (Horace)|Epistulae]]'' 2.1.156f.)
:Captive Greece took captive her uncivilised conqueror and instilled her arts in rustic [[Latium]].
Via the Roman Empire, Greek culture came to be foundational to [[Western culture]] in general.
The [[Byzantine Empire]] inherited Classical Greek-Hellenistic culture directly, without Latin intermediation, and the preservation of Classical Greek learning in medieval Byzantine tradition further exerted a strong influence on the [[Slavs]] and later on the [[Islamic Golden Age]] and the Western European [[Renaissance]]. A modern revival of Classical Greek learning took place in the [[Neoclassicism]] movement in 18th- and 19th-century Europe and the Americas.