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The Soma of ancient India , and the special potion drunk prior to the secret religious ceremony practiced at the village of Eleusis in ancient Greece testify to the use of these substances in more ancient cultures . He who stands on Mont Albano and looks down on ancient Rome , has his mind peopled with the gigantic associations of the storied past ; but he who stands on the mounds of the West , the most venerable remains of American antiquity , may experience the emotion of the sublime , but it is the sublimity of a shoreless ocean un-islanded by the recorded deeds of man . With its unique blend of historical , philological , and philosophical perspectives , it creates a new basis for understanding a crucial formative stage of Chinese intellectual history ; and through its well-presented comparisons with Western traditions , above all with ancient Greece , it opens up the world of the Zuo zhuan and the Guo yu to readers from the Humanities and Social Sciences at large . Those two books made me fall in love with Ancient Greece , and when I then went to University I signed up for Ancient Greek at Berkeley in California . At any rate , if we may not yet say that the creed which Buddha held but did not openly profess , was the spiritual idealism of ancient India , we may say that the counter-hypothesis - - that Buddha 's creed was the direct negation of that lofty faith - - can easily be disproved . The western half of the empire , including Hispania , Gaul , and Italy , eventually broke into independent kingdoms in the 5th century ; the eastern empire , governed from Constantinople , is referred to as the Byzantine Empire after AD 476 , the traditional date for the " fall of Rome " and subsequent onset of the Middle Ages.Roman civilization is often grouped into " classical antiquity " with ancient Greece , a civilization that inspired much of the culture of ancient Rome . Trained in the art and architecture of ancient India , he was interested in the visual means by which such religious structures gained their sacred potency . Fall quarter begins with a foray into the culture of ancient Ireland , then focuses on the arrival of Christianity and the incursions of the Vikings , the English and others . This unique character is very largely due to the fact that , even judged by the formal standards of ancient India , this battle , owing to Naresuen 's bravery and resolution in standing firm against immense odds , developed in a manner indistinguishable from idealistic warfare and so would be likely to exhibit to the full whatever cultural features were still alive . Roman civilization is often grouped into " classical antiquity " with ancient Greece , a civilization that inspired much of the culture of ancient Rome . She is currently engaged in a study of ancient fountains and water imagery at Ancient Corinth , Greece ( Corinth Excavations , American School of Classical Studies ) .