The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

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 ...

It was forged by the Jews, the inventors of Western culture. Through Abraham and Moses, they laid the moral foundations for this new civilization. It was forged by the Greeks and the Romans ...

Greece’s timeless art: Golden Age temples, alluring Venuses, and exuberant Winged Victory. Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged ...

Prize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how “Western civilization”—the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to ...

Although Mac Sweeney identifies a number of false claims about what Western civilization is, all these assertions seem to collapse into one main misconception: that ancient Greece, ancient Rome ...

Perspectives on Western Culture is a year-long ... In the first semester, students begin by encountering two "spiritual eruptions": the rise of Greek philosophy, and the Judeo-Christian experience of ...