Where does history take us? From the positive knowledge of philology and classical culture, where Rodríguez Adrados first made his name, it constructs the plan for a philosophy of history structured around a central idea: that Ancient Greece forms a before and after in the progress of history, a cultural heritage which radiates to the present day. But what were the values that the Greeks introduced? If the birth of the individual was what made liberty and political life possible, the concept of the development and flowering of Art and Science also opened the way to certain dangers.