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Introduction: Among all the peoples of the ancient world, one whose culture most clearly exemplified the spirit of Western society was the Greek or Hellenic. No other people had so strong a devotion to freedom or so firm a belief in the nobility of human achievement. The Greeks glorified humanity as the most important creation in the universe and refused to submit to the dictates of priests or despots. The Greek view of the world …

…These are all ways of thinking and acting that have helped enrich human life vastly but that had hardly been known to humanity before the Greeks invented them. This civilization has many teaching to learn from and mysteries that will always be questioned. Then again, all of these wonderful traits makes a person wonder if the Hellenistic Age is not one of the most significant in the entire human record for comparison with our own.