>>7615100
It has continuously shaped the Western aesthetics and still deeply influence our culture today. I don't think there's anything culture still studied and held as such a model centuries and centuries after.

>>7615100
Because they started everything and they did it better with a smaller population and with considerably worse technology.

is there any good articles/videos on the importance of the greeks?

because they set the foundations to western thought. its like doing math without addition/subtraction

everyone else does it

you cant spell greek without being some letter of the alphabet too

>>7615100
>I get that they started the tradition but why does that mean we should allude to them and study them?
Largely shipable rbh, just go with the Germans and then onward, read various Greeks in between. If you're not a total non-thinker you won't miss much of anything that isn't covered better later on anyway.