Although many modern humanist organizations like to call 13 th-century Petrarch the Father of Humanism because he popularized a return to classical Greek and Roman thought, humanism qua humanism — ...

The move for American Independence was greatly influenced by ancient Greece, particularly philosophy from the time.

Humanism means helping people, and secular humanism means doing it without supernatural religion. It began as long ago in ancient Greece, when some thinkers advocated humanitas, a helpful spirit ...

With the synthesis of vital form and formal beauty which marked the birth of Humanism, the Greek sculptors of the Fifth Century B.C. opened up a new dimension of human consciousness, Sir Herbert ...

The political embodiment of Greek humanism was the city-state, which provided order instead of anarchy, freed the individual from the frenzied worship of nature gods, and destroyed the rigid cult ...

The humanism of to-day has at its disposal an embarrassing array of tempting dishes; ... Among the ancient Greeks, as also in the Renaissance, both ages of humanism and free inquiry, ...

Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.