Did Ancient greek culture lay a foundation for western civilization for art?

Too many areas to mention

First of All, language, latin is based off of Eutruscian and Greek, and Latin is the Root of Italian, French, parts of English, Spanish, Portuguese and more laguagues responsible for Western thinking.

Art, and Architecture ancient Greek Art is still used, statues, marble and painting in tradition styles still exist as well as pottery, mosaics, and even the idea of the Artisic Building or Architecture still plays a huge role in our society, giving us many styles of building like the state and federal capitols, anything with an exposed column comes from Ancient Greece.

Olympics and Sports the ancient Greeks pride themselves in Sports, they are the founders of the ancient Olympics, we honor the nation every 2/4years with them leading the Opening Ceremonies, and the Greek National anthem is sung, and the Olympic Anthem is written and sung in Greek (for the ancient Olympics) and French (to commemorate the founding ethinicity of the modern Olympic Games) By they way, Gymnasium, is a greek Word meaning place of nudity...no lie.

philosophy, mathematics, enigineering

the Greeks deveoloped complex hypothesis regarding math and physics, and even engineering. Such examples are the introduction of Pi...for circles, the PAthagorian Theorum, the rationalization of zero, and the concept of infinant numbers and and fractions. Greeks built four of the 7 wonders of th world, the Temple of Artimis, the Collosus at Rhoodes, the Great mossoleum, the Pharos Lighthouse (built in Egypt but designed by Greeks during the Greek ownership of Egypt) and the Temple of Zeus and the Great Library of Alexandria. Only the Pyramids and Hanging Gardens of Babylon were not constructed by the Greeks.

Greeks developed great strides in Philosophical thinking and psychology, basing many studies off of parent-child relationships. We get terms of philosophy from Ancient Greece like Utopia (which is Greek for no place basically it doesnt exist).

Legends were passed even into the Middle Ages and the Rennaisance, Greek gods and goddesses stories and legends were portreyed as theatre evens for royalty during the Tudor era and have survived to be included in Shakespeare's plays (MidSummer Night's Dream) and there are tons of other mytholical references in the plays

Theatre and Educations were introduced by Greece, the Greeks developed the Grecian theatre which laid the croundwork for the Colliseum. Theatres and dramas were a major step up from story telling, rather it became story showing. Education was highly prized in Greece, the Greeks built workshops, and sponsored inventors to build wonderful machines, like toilets, heated pools, and even war machines.

Politics were influenced by the Greeks, democracy, republics were all ancient forms of Greek city-state politics and eventually adopted by Rome, Europe, America and all over the world.

Agriculture

Certain foods were first made and produced in Greece, including Wine, Olive oil, octopus, and certain other types of fish, as well as certain agricultural styles like how to till the land, the idea of crop rotation.

The Greeks gave us sciences like Astronomy, Physics, and Medicine there is evidence that Greek scientists preformed ancient sureries for teeth, heads, arms and legs, as well asponder their existence and hypothesises in the universe.