This quite impossible to sum up in a few words the enormous wealth of epic poetry, drama and philosophy that has come down to us from Ancient Greece. It has provided inspiration for both rational thought and artistic creativity from one generation to the next within Western culture.
The wisdom of Ancient Greece combined passion, a raw appreciation of human emotions and the tragedy of a life driven by them, with the most rigorous and careful analysis of ideas. Greek drama probed every recess of human frailty, exposing the agony of self-doubt and the sense of injustice in the world, and in doing so elevated language as never before. That wisdom was also the source of science, philosophy, psychology and politics as we know them today, and the language in which we explore these subjects depends to a great extent on Greek terms.

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