一导论本文所涉主题堪作鸿篇巨论。“西方文化”的涵盖范围几近世界之半,“希腊罗马文明”亦繁盛千年有余(从公元前7世纪到公元6世纪)。关于这一题目的论述不可能在区区数页之内完成。况且,“文化”(culture)、“文明”(civilization)、“西方”(western)、“希腊罗马”(Greek and Roman)、“古典”(classical)这样的术语,就自身而言并非如人们所期望地那般清楚明白,而且还会引起无休无止的争论。但我相信,甚至是在一篇没有依照惯例附上参考注释的小短文中,我们也能够勾勒出二者关系的某些 An introduction The topic of this article can be regarded as a grand grand theory. “Western culture ” covers almost half of the world, “Greek and Roman civilization ” is also prosperous for more than a thousand years (from the 7th century BC to the 6th century AD). The discussion on this subject can not be completed within a few pages of the area. Moreover, “culture ”, “civilization ”, “western ”, “Greek and Roman ”, “classical” Terminology, in itself is not as clear as expected, but also aroused endless debate. But I believe even in a small essay that has not been attached to a reference note by convention, we can outline some of the relations between the two