Ancient Greeks

I'm going to ask you this question, why are you here, that is to say why should you we all of us want to study these ancient Greeks? I think it's reasonable for people who are considering the study of a particular subject in a college course to ask why they show. What is it about the ancient between the years that I mentioned that deserves the attention of people in the twenty first century, I think the answer is to be found or at least once the truth is there are many instances and some of them is terribly interesting but that's very much of a, what's the word I want the opposite of objective, subjective observation by me, so I would say less objective one is that it comes from their position to say the position of the Greeks at the most significant starting point of western civilization, which is the culture the most powerful shapes not only the west but most of the world. Today it seems to me the evidence or whatever it's other characteristics the west has created institutions of government and law that provide I'm precedent freedom for people. It's also invented a body of natural scientific knowledge technological achievement that together make possible a level of health and material prosperity undreamed of in earlier times and unknown outside the west and those places that have been influenced. By the way I think the Nobel prize laureate V S Naipol, a man born in Trinidad of Indian parents, was right when they spoke of the modern world as our universal civilization shaped chiefly by the west.