But the Roman Empire is itself significantly influenced by Greek culture, Greek mathematics, Greek architecture, Greek philosophy. And in a lot of ways, the Romans end up becoming the caretakers of much of this culture that we talk about in this video. And once you have the decline of the Roman Empire, especially the Western Roman Empire, and Europe enters into the Middle Ages, you have the Islamic world that acts as a bit of a bridge of this Greek culture into the European Renaissance, and eventually the Enlightenment. And so we can trace even our modern views of science and philosophy all the way back to these Greeks. And so I'll leave you with this quote from the Roman poet Horace, who wrote this around the 1st century BCE. Captive Greece took captive her fierce conqueror and instilled her arts in rustic Latium, or Latium. And so what he's saying is, even though Rome had conquered Greece, Greece's culture took captive her conqueror, took captive the Roman culture, instilled Greece's arts in the rustic Latin world.