In the history of world civilization, the ancient Greeks are worthy of being a nation with outstanding creativity on the basis of inheritance. Their creativity stems from their studious spirit, natural curiosity, pursuit of knowledge and open national character, which urges them to seek knowledge from all aspects, no matter where it comes from. For example, Herodotus, the "father of history", and Thales, a philosopher, traveled all over the East in search of true knowledge. This was the vision of the wise men at that time. "What Greece borrowed, whether it is Egyptian art form or Mesopotamian mathematics and astronomy, is branded with the unique wisdom characteristics of the Greeks. These characteristics boil down to being open-minded, curious, good at thinking, eager for knowledge and rich in common sense. " The creation of ancient Greek civilization is indeed based on absorbing the excellent heritage of ancient oriental civilization; It is the wisdom of the Greeks to step on the shoulders of "giants". In Plato's words, it is "we make everything borrowed from foreign countries more beautiful". The foundation of ancient Greek culture is the source of eastern culture, and it has developed into the source of western culture. The creator is the real successor. Judging from the creativity of the Greeks, this statement is credible.

Such as freedom of thought or free thought. The freedom of thought or free thought mentioned here does not mean an innate and internal thinking activity, but the result seen in the world as a rational thinking. It appeared in the ancient world and was the earliest and most important for the Greeks. German historical philosopher Karl? Karl jaspers clearly pointed out: "The Greek city-state laid the foundation of all western free consciousness, free thought and free reality." Edith, a modern American historian? Hamilton even said that "freedom of thought appeared for the first time" among Greeks. In any case, freedom of thought and free thought first sprouted in the Greek city-state, which was created by the high development of slave economy and slave democracy. This is: rich material conditions, happy spiritual life and sufficient leisure time have found their home in the ancient Greek city-state system and the democratic city-state (such as Athens); In addition, in the real life of the polis, there was no powerful monk group and unified religious ideology to restrain people's freedom of thought, which had its unique and inherent historical conditions compared with other places in the ancient world at that time.

Pursuing life enjoyment and secular entertainment, Greeks attach importance to the secular world. They also have the concepts of hades and heaven, but seldom talk about them. They seldom consider coming to this world, but place their infinite hopes on the real world. No wonder, the ghost of Achilles said that he would rather be an employee of the world than be called hades. Even the gods in ancient Greek mythology have lost their mysterious light. The story of cruel struggle and jealousness in that mythical world is like a picture of secular life full of human interests. God is like this. Let me see, they may go to the open-air square to attend the citizens' meeting, listen to other people's speeches and express their opinions impassioned; Or go to the theater, shocking tragedies and humorous comedies that criticize the shortcomings of the times, so that they can't sleep all night and linger; Or go to Plato's Academy to listen to the master's lectures, understand the philosophy of life and discuss all kinds of knowledge with each other; Or exercise, be physically strong at ordinary times, and join the army to defend the safety of the polis in wartime; Or make an appointment with three or five friends, gather at home to drink and chat until dawn ... meetings, reading, watching movies, listening to music, enjoying art, sports, bathing, party banquets and so on. So the Greeks enjoyed life to the fullest, and in the process, they sought the growth of personal intelligence and the improvement of moral quality. Greeks pay attention to the present world rather than history, and the historical spirit in Greek culture is pragmatic and present. Because of its practicality, history has become a school and training place for people's political life. In other words, history is valuable because it can make people better understand the present, enjoy the happiness of this world and live a better life.

Believing in humanism and attaching importance to people and their own values have been discussed in academic circles. Here, only the famous classical cultural scholar An? Bonner's insight: "The starting point and object of all Greek civilizations are people. It starts from people's needs and pays attention to people's interests and progress. In order to seek human interests and progress, it explores the world as well as people, and explores the other side through one side. "

The well-known myth "The Mystery of the Sphinx" reflects the primitive ancestors' initial thinking about human status. From then on, revealing the status, achievements and historical role of human beings can be said to run through the whole history of Greek civilization. There, due to the development of the Greek city-state, the role of individual citizens as the main body of the city-state has been constantly reflected, thus the belief in personal value, individualism and personal dignity has been continuously strengthened, even to protagoras, the representative of the wise school, and even more. At the same time, in the field of drama and art, there are more meaningful works to render and express people's will, strength and creativity, which are inspiring to the world. In other words, this humanistic spirit constitutes all aspects of Greek culture and has become a model of ancient Greek civilization.