The Far-Reaching Influence of Ancient Greece and Rome

Areas of influence by ancient Greece and Rome:

• The Greco-Roman civilization refers to the geographical regions and countries that were influenced by the language, culture, government, and religion of the Greeks and Romans.
• The area refers to the "Mediterranean world", the extensive tracts of land centered on the Mediterranean and Black Sea Basins.
• Greek and Latin became the languages of the urban and cosmopolitan elites and the Empire's lingua franca for those who lived within the large territories and populations outside the Macedonian settlements and the Roman colonies.
• The cores of the Greco-Roman world were the Italian Peninsula, Greece, Cyprus, the Iberian Peninsula, the Anatolian Peninsula, Gaul, the Syrian region, Egypt, and Roman Africa.
• The periphery of that world was occupied by the so-called "Roman Germany", the Illyricum, the Macedonian region, Thrace, Moesia, and Pannonia.
• The Greco-Roman world also included Dacia, Mauretania, Jordan, Southern Syria, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, and the Tauric Chersonesus.
• The Persian Empire was another "world" to the east of the Greco-Roman world with which there was constant interaction.
• The foundations of education were transmitted throughout the lands of Greek and Roman rule in schools of art, philosophy, and rhetoric.
• Graeco-Roman architecture in the Roman world followed the principles and style that had been established by ancient Greece.
• By AD 211, all of the empire's free men became citizens with all the rights this entailed.
• Greco-Roman mythology, sometimes called classical mythology, is the result of the syncretism between Roman and Greek myths.
• Early Christianity was born in the world of Greco-Roman influence which had a massive influence on Christian culture.