This essay touches upon a few of the significant achievements made by those whom lived, during the conception of western culture, in ancient Greece and Rome. Some of these influences are quite extraordinary and relevant to our current society and culture here in the west. I would like to point to the most significant Greek ideal influencing our world today: democracy. An ideal that, I might add, which seems to be ever increasingly pushed aside by the elite few whom are controlling the world through corporate finance and regime sponsorship.