Greece? We Go With West

This week in our online class we travel to Greece, which, historically, being home to the powerful yet philosophical Ancient Greeks -- the Spartans, the Athenians, the Macedonians and more -- who paved the way for the Roman Empire, is very much at the heart of what makes Western Europe "Western Europe." Culturally, however, Greece retains so much of its Byzantine/Ottoman heritage that it's very much a land of "the East," and clearly Greece is geographically located to the south of the countries we know as Eastern Europe. All Around This World weighed these east-meets-west options and decided that, for our purposes, Greece could land in the West, while looking eastward in its music and dance. Onward!