The fundamental elements of western civilization, from columnar architecture, the aesthetic proportions of the human form and humanistic drama to geometric theorems, democracy and the theory of absolutism, all had their origin in the art and culture of ancient Greece.
今天西方文明，以至於世界文明中所熟見的圓柱型建築、人體美學的比例、人性化的古劇，乃至於幾何定律、民主主義、極權理論… …，無一不是從希臘建築、雕刻及古哲學中孕育出來的。