No other country had such an influence on the formation of Western culture and world civilization in general as Ancient Greece. In a sense, we still owe a lot to the Greeks. The beginnings of our ideas about politics, a number of sciences, including philosophy, literature, architecture, art - all this is largely based on the ideas of the ancient Greeks. For example, one cannot be considered an educated person without knowing Greek mythology. A visitor to any art gallery will feel this. The languages of all European peoples contain a significant percentage of Greek words and concepts. The Russian language is no exception; in addition, our writing - Cyrillic - is based on Greek writing. For middle and high school age.