Classical Greece

Classical Greece, especially under Pericles' rule, witnessed a period of remarkable intellectual as well as cultural growth that later became the key source of Western culture. Aristotle often wrote about the importance of intellectual and cultural life.

Classical Greece

Classical Greece witnessed a period of remarkable intellectual and cultural growththat later became the main source of Western culture. Aristotle often wrote about the importance of cultural and intellectual life:

The activity of the mind is not only the highest...but also the most continuous: we are able to study continuously more easily than to perform any kind of action....It follows that the activity of our intelligence constitutes the complete happiness of man. In other words, a life guided by intelligence is the best and most pleasant for man, inasmuch as intelligence, above all else, is man. Consequently, this kind of life is the happiest.

Classical Greece