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Eternal Prominence: The Impact of Ancient Greece In the eighth century B.C. a revolutionary force embarked on a cultural conquest that would change the western world forever. Greece was conceived, a lustrous gem in a world dominated by routine and rigid conformity. Egypt, renowned up to that point as the pinnacle of civilization, cast a bleak outlook on life, shared by most of the World. Obsessed with death, and the suppression of the human …

…arts, the Greeks laid the foundation on which western civilization could grow. Their achievements are boundless, yet Hamilton states the simplicity of the ancient Greeks, “…their unflinching faith in reality, of the unseen, and the guise in which they embodied this faith, represent an important stage in the history of human belief” (Hamilton 55). Through this society one sees the strength of eternity forever bound in the prominence of the historical phenomenon known as The West.