Lesson 1. The Ancient Greeks and the Life to Come

There is very little doubt that we are still influenced by the ancient Greeks. They were a remarkable people whose civilisation and culture has significantly inflluenced the history of the world.

Despite the disintegration of Alexander's Macedonian Empire, Greek language and philosophy continued to have a massive impact on the thinking of civilisations that would follow. A casual look at our English language shows we have hundreds of words that have come from the Greek. Even our word alphabet consists of the two first letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta.