And we shall assuredly
not be without witnesses; the mighty monuments of our
power make us the wonder of this age and will make us
the wonder of future ages. Pericles
"The
Ancient Greeks are so significant that they demand to be studied
in their own right and not merely as forerunners of ourselves."
"The Rise of The Greeks," Michael Grant.
So, you don't study them to know the history of who we are;
you study
them because of what they are.