What are the cultural characteristics of Ancient Greece?
The cultures varied from city-state to city-state. You could say that one cultural aspect was their disunity and tribalism - hence the warring city-states. The Athenians were apparently the philosophers, thinkers and idealists. They were the inventors of democracy. The Spartans were the warlike ones, who trained children from birth to be warriors. That's all I really know.
Why is Ancient Greek culture important?
For you Αnonymus.. We alter that you are no one, belonging to the crowd or wanting to be lost in it, Greek culture is important because she calles you ... ANΩΝΥΜΟΣ .. why you?In the word ANΩNYMOS we also see the concept of superior law. Who is this?LOGOSThis sets.You the Anonymous who is nobodyWhy would He want you to be someone even for a moment ..Because He knew the inner mood of your soul, he called you nεurotic and anorgasmic, erotic and nαrcissus. Why he knows your soul and what you need.And if you want to be Someone and not an Anonymous-Nobody, Read the greatest story ever told…The greatest tale ever told?
What are the most interesting aspects of the Ancient Greek culture?
Pun intended, there is a very colorful discussion among experts regarding the concept of color in ancient Greece. This discussion shows how difficult it is to really prove something in history studies. The great Homer himself is one source of this confusion. It seems that he understood there is only four colors. When debating this, some scientists have observed that in ancient Greece they did not use abstract terms when speaking about colors. They did have only a few named colors, but they used a different approach in detailing colors. A brown object would be ”tree-colored”, a grey one ”sheep-colored” etc. Homer himself used a term ”wine-colored” sea.But then someone says: ”Hey, Homer was blind! How can you say anything about colors in the works written by a blind man?”Another says: ”It is a myth! We even do not know whether the man ever existed. He could be a combination of several people, or even a woman.” Oh dear.People knowing something about human ancestry say that they are pretty sure that the Greeks had very modern capabilities, because in 2500 years humans have not developed that much better senses, if anything. They saw the colors all-right.Then comes a linguist and says:”I am so irritated about this discussion. All this talk about wine-colored sea is based on error in translation.” Then he writes something in Greek letters in order to show he is right. And probably is.A number of authoritative books have been written around 1) a paradigm that Greeks saw everything in black and white, 2) a paradigm that they only had four colors and were satisfied with it, 3) a paradigm that Greeks did see all colors, but differently, 4) a paradigm that all Greeks were like Homer, 5) a paradigm that all Greeks were not like Homer, predominantly becuse he was blind and the rest of Greeks not, 6) a paradigm that Homer was not Greek at all, and Troy was in Scandinavia, 7) a paradigm that Greeks were like modern humans, but used different concepts.I believe the latter is true, but who cares.
What are the 3 unifying aspects of Ancient Greek culture?
I. Language. The Greeks could understand each other, regardless of their citizenship - Athenians, Spartans, Thebans, islanders(Cretans). From this comes the second aspect - culture.II. Culture. The Greek culture was not so unified at the beginnings, with differences between Athens and Sparta, but also other different polises and colonies. The culture became unified after the conquests of Alexander the Great, a unique Hellenistic culture.III. The social organization - the Polis, the City-State was the common social denominator for the Greeks, and afterward was the state - after the dissolution of the Alexandrian brief empire, shared and split between the Diadochi.I hope that I answered to your question, but why three aspects and not one, two or five?
How did mountains affect ancient Greece.?
Greece is a country that is characterized by several peculiarities. Being the southernmost part of the Balkan peninsula, is surrounded by two major seas (Aegean to the East and Ionian to the West) but is also highly mountainous in the mainland. The major mountain ranges of the Balkans end up in Greece, dividing the country in mesas, plateaus, and small valleys. The extreme geography of Greece posed a major problem in antiquity because the different areas could not communicate effectively, due to the natural obstacles that obscured transportations. Getting from one city to another was extremely difficult. Things were a bit bettet at sea, but still the hundreds of islands big and small made communication and merchandise difficult. The poor in nutritional substances Greek soil and the lack of available for cultivation areas, did not help the advance of agriculture, leading to poverty and even famish. Every city-state had to fend for its own citizens, leading to further strengthen of the autonomous character of Greeks' idiosyncracy. In general, the geographical isolation and the scarcity of resources made it hard to establish and control a central government that would unite all the Greek cities. When the city-states accumulated a certain number of citizens, found themselves unable to provide the necessary means for survival (e.g. grains). So colonization was strongly encouraged to alleviate the mother city-state and to fight over-population. Plus the lush rich shores of Minor Asia with their vast and fertile valleys were hard to resist. The first colonization wave led to the assimilation of Minor Asia to the Greek world, and the second colonization wave led to the creation of various new cities all over the Mediterranean basin (South Italy-Magna Graecia, south shores of Spain and France, etc.)
What are some aspects of Minoan, Mycenaean, and Dorian culture?
I have to do a report describing the changes and continuities of Minoan, Mycenaean and Dorian culture between 2000 B.C and 1000 B.C. I'm lost! I know some aspects, like religion and language, but not others. Would social structure (like monarchy and patriarchy) and art (pottery, paintings, etc.) count? Someone please help! Thanks.
How can you compare and contrast ancient Chinese culture with ancient Greek culture?
According to the Chinese own histories,the first emperor destroyed all records previous to his time about 200 bc and the Hellenistic age that is the time after Alexander the Great is after 323bc so the Greek civilisation is older and more outwardly going.Alexander wanted to know the world which is why he went east and in going east,he spread Greek ideas as far as Afghanistan (the graveyard of empires)if it weren’t for the revolt of his army he would have made it to China and curiosity killed the Greeks to paraphrase whereas no matter what China was always egocentric,arrogant and one of the countries favourite curses was “May you live in interesting times!”,which was a curse but if you said that to a Hellene that would probably make him happy for they liked knowledge for its sake.Greek culture was dynamic,curious,rich and greedy the Chinese culture had a dichotomy one is that static meant stability which was good so change was bad therefore,new ideas are bad so are new inventions etc …for the Greeks,some entropy was good,trade and new ideas are great and everything else that goes with it is great.Which would you prefer?
What are the best images that depict ancient Greek culture?
Bellow is a sample of ancient Hellenic TRUE Hellenic clothing… Look the isosceles cross, the symbol of Zeus and the symbol of all SUN deities… What a beautiful era.All that thousands of years before Christianity… You can find these statues in Akropolis museum. Now you know why they keep my country in a war for 2000 years now.. But hey, they didnt make it, we are still here and we didnt changed!Bellow is the tomb of Midas 2.700y ago, again the Gamadion (if you turn it, it become swastika for the nazis) and the isosceles cross.Nazis did exactly what 2000y ago their kind did again. 2000y ago they used the cross to paint it with blood. 80y ago did the same thing. The good part is, they didnt used the symbols as it is original, they tweaked them. For example 2000y ago they extended the cross from bellow because of the human body-shape. 80y ago they used the Masonic cross 4 triangles united and a rotated gammadion.
Which factors of ancient Greek culture and civilization do you believe to be the most important ones today?
Number one, the creation of the Polis, which was the first modern political system providing rights to common citizens. The model is the dominant political system in the world today.Number two, their contributing to thinking and human thought. The Greeks were the first thinkers in the western world and provided the foundation of knowledge that later civilizations would build on. Philosophy would probably be the most important of their intellectual contributions.