Roman epigrams owe much to their Greek predecessors and contemporaries.

Muslims made several important improvements to the theory and construction of sundials, which they inherited from their Indian and Greek predecessors.

One excellent example is his Bacchides and its supposed Greek predecessor, Menander's Dis Exapaton.

Ptolemy inherited from his Greek predecessors a geometrical toolbox and a partial set of models for predicting where the planets would appear in the sky.

For religious reasons, they did not dissect either human beings or animals, thus their knowledge was based in its entirety on the texts of their Greek predecessors.

They have shown important advances over those of their Greek predecessors.

And yet it remains unclear whether his scientific method was truly modern or more like Ptolemy and his Greek predecessors.

Richter defines the cathedra as a later version of the Greek klismos, which she says was never as popular as its Greek predecessor.

Shown side by side, two pieces based on the kylix, a classical Greek predecessor of the chalice, provide a striking contrast in spirit.

It can be argued, and has been, that the Roman authors, far from being mindless copycats, improved on the genres already established by their Greek predecessors.