Ancient Greek Culture In Ancient Greece

HISTORY ASSINGMENT ANCIENT GREEK

INTRODUCTION

The Ancient Greek Culture was inspired mostly on every standard in the modern western world. It was contributed to our daily standards in many of the western nations, or the countries that follow an Americanized path of the life. Things like such as the marketplaces, writing and the literature, toilets, social conduct, government, hygiene, and most of all the common manners and feelings.

Democracy of the Ancient Greece

The word democracy comes from 2 different words demo means ‘people’ and Katia means ‘rule’. Athens was the first town of the Attica. As well as being the commercial center, the Agora was the administrative and legal center, where the Athenian democracy was put into practice.

Drama of the Ancient Greek

There are 3 types of drama; Tragedy, Comedies and Epic Poem.

COMEDIES: One day of the festival of the Dionysus was devoted to comedies, which could make fun of the gods, the customs of the Athenians, or individuals such as Pericles and Socrates, Aristophanes was famous comic playwright.

TRAGEDIES: early Greek Tragedies, such as those written by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles, often dealt with a subject from a legend they might be about a battle from the Trojan War or the gods punishing great men who had too much pride. The Tragedies were followed by the Satyrs. These were crude Comedies, often relying on sexual humor, and one of their functions could have been to release the tension after three days and Tragedies.

EPIC POEM: An epic is a lengthy narrative poem; it is ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or a nation. Another type of epic poetry is epyllion which is a brief narrative poem with...

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...urope as far as France in the East. The Greek Empire was most powerful between 2000 BC and 146 BC.

The Ancient Greeks developed new ideas for government, science, philosophy, religion, and art.

Ancient Greek was split into many different states; each state was ruled in its own way. Each state had its own laws, government and money but they shared the same language and religion. The two most important city states were Athens and Sparta.

Literature of the Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek literature refers to the literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until roughly the rise of the Empire. This period of Greek literature stretches from Homer until the 4th century BC and the rise of the Alexander the Great. English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once claimed that all of philosophy is but a footnote to Plato.