Modernity in relation to cultural movements?

Question

I am writing an essay on modernity (I will focus on the concept of solid and liquid modernity, as opposed to modernity and postmodernity). I would like to argue that modernity began in the Graeco-Roman period, as that is typically considered to be (as far as I know) the first cultural movement. Were there any significant cultural movements before this time? I am trying to argue that it is cultural movements and counter-movements that propelled modernity and progress.

Answer 1

Go back a little further, the adapted most of their views from the Helenistic period, from the Greeks.  The Greek influence on what you are referring to was tremendous.  Good luck with your essay.

Answer 2

I would argue it is the invention of the printing press and the popularization for literacy competence, but the slang usage for those words (modernism/postmodernism) and their  assigned definitions, to my knowledge, refers to the re-popularization for/of science in part attributed to Rene Descartes and his meditations (modern) and G.W.F. Hegel as a historical land mark for postmodernism. But again, Socrates is arguably a progenitor for political and scientific reformation.