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The Greeks in particular are widely praised for their contributions to the foundations of reason, philosophy, the arts, the sciences, and so on. They've been particularly popular for this in Western culture since the Renaissance, when much of Europe rediscovered many of the ancient works from the Hellenistic period.
Aristotle in particular is acknowledged by proponents of the rationalist tradition because he codified the laws of logic. Of course much of his worldview is no longer supported, but he laid so much of the foundation for what would later develop into the Libertarian tradition, as much of libertarianism is built on secular humanism and rationalism. One need not agree entirely with one's philosophical forbears to appreciate their contributions. Newton, for instance, had some ideas about divinity that many scientists and mathematicians do not share, but one cannot reasonably deny his contributions to the physical sciences and calculus (incidentally, more recent discoveries have shown records suggesting that Aristotle was developing similar mathematical techniques over two thousand years before Newton, which is astonishing).