A loose confederation of city-states and petty kingdoms, held together by a need for mutual protection, is what remains. Now, however, the Greeks are reduced in power, and largely confined to their original homelands.
The world is only the way it is because Greeks fought off the despots of Persia, and because Alexander led Greeks to the ends of the earth! There are few corners of the known world that have not felt the tread of a Greek army, or been graced by the magnificence of Greek architecture. They are the fathers of democracy and reason, bringers of civilization and culture to the lands around the Mediterranean.
