# Ancient Greece Ancient Greece names a changing network of Greek-speaking city-states, colonies, kingdoms, and cultural traditions, not one timeless nation. [[wiki/Classical Athens|Classical Athens]] is one crucial part of that world; the [[wiki/Macedonian Empire|Macedonian Empire]] and [[wiki/Hellenistic World|Hellenistic World]] belong to later configurations. Their differences make the transmission of [[wiki/Hellenic Cultural Inheritance|Hellenic culture]] more interesting than a single-origin legend. The Greek legacy includes political experiment, philosophy, history, mathematics, drama, architecture, and myth. Its later reception is a subject of [[wiki/Western Civilization|Western civilization]] and [[wiki/Neo-Westernism|neo-Westernism]], not evidence that every Greek institution survived unchanged. ## Sources - [The Art of Classical Greece](https://www.metmuseum.org/es/essays/the-art-of-classical-greece-ca-480-323-b-c), Metropolitan Museum of Art. - [The Hellenistic Age](https://www.metmuseum.org/fr/essays/art-of-the-hellenistic-age-and-the-hellenistic-tradition), Metropolitan Museum of Art.