Despite some of the unknown, 70% agree ancient Greek culture is influential in the modern world. With 55% saying its history ...

TEST your Greek knowledge in this true or false quiz, after a survey revealed how little people know about the country.

Civilizations rise and civilizations fall. But the greatest and most enduring civilizations can also adapt. Western civilization and Western values are not in decline as much as they are adapting ...

This course surveys some important issues and tendencies in the history of Western Civilization from its origins through the early modern period, including ancient Mesopotamia, classical Greece and ...

There’s also the Greek factor. The origins and ties of Western civilization are Greek. But the modern vision of Western civilization nearly excludes the living Greeks. No wonder the advocates of ...

The age of eighteen is associated with adulthood in modern western culture. The child is older than eighteen, but by recalling a time ‘eighteen years ago’, the speaker shows us that the child ...