Write a composition about Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece is a term used to describe areas of ancient culture that spoke ancient Greek. It is not limited to the territories of the present Greek state, but also includes the territories to which Hellenic culture spread in ancient times. These areas include Cyprus, part of present-day Turkey, Sicily, the so-called Greater Greece in southern Italy, and other Greek settlements around the shores of the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

The history of ancient Greece is generally divided into the archaic period (about 700–500 BC), the classical period (480–330 BC), and the Hellenistic period (330–27 BC). The ancient Hellenistic culture then continued under Roman rule (Roman period), while spreading to ever wider groups of people. The vitality of culture, and especially the Greek language, is evidenced by Byzantine Greek half a millennium later.

Western cultures consider the Greeks as the founders of philosophy (the presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc), logic and scientific investigation (physics, mathematics, astronomy). Greek literature probably had less influence for a long time than that of its Roman imitators, and Greek art remains considered a model of classical balance.