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In the days before modern radio and TV, people gained entertainment through itinerant bards - poets who sang their poems. Then as the religious singing and dancing in the forest glades became transformed into stage plays in theatres, poetic dialogue was added and recited and danced and sung. Poetry was at the centre of religion and entertainment.
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How does Greek mythology still influence us today?
Because Apollo was such a popular god of the Greeks many aspects of his godhood are known and understood in to society today, namely of the arts of music, song and poetry; and that of healing, plague and disease.
How did democracy affect Ancient Greece?
It allowed Athens to flourish. (music,arts,poems,etc.)
What were two types of early greek literature and what were they about?
There were fables, lyrical poems, epics, and other literature types in ancient Greece. Fables were short stories that taught a lesson. Aesop wrote many fables that we still read and enjoy today. Lyrical poems were poems set to music. Epics were extremely long poems that told a story. Homer wrote the Iliad, an epic about the Trojan War, and the Odyssey, an epic about the adventures of Oddyseus.
What did the Druids do for a living?
Druids memorized and recited long poems about Celtic myths, were in charge of religious rituals, and settled disputes among chiefs for a living.
What animals lived in Ancient Greece?
Deer, wild boar, wolf, fox, lammergeier (a kind of huge bird), snakes and tortoises, among others. In some Greek poems such as the Iliad, lions and leopards are mentioned; this is because back in ancient times, these large carnivores were also found in Europe including Greece! That's also why Greek mythology mentions them even though lions and leopards are no longer found in Greece.
Why poems and myths important to ancient Greeks?
They explained all the things that happen in nature. Such as, the 4 seasons. (Persephone). Poems were often how the Greeks wrote the myths.
Why poems and myths were important to ancient Greeks?
They explained all the things that happen in nature. Such as, the 4 seasons. (Persephone). Poems were often how the Greeks wrote the myths.
What was Ancient Spartans Literature?
they did novels myths pormdeps and even military poems
What is ancient literature?
Poems and myths, many poets were multi-talented such as philosophers. There were stories, such as Troy, many such as these were written as poems.
What is ancient Roman Literature?
Poems and myths, many poets were multi-talented such as philosophers. There were stories, such as Troy, many such as these were written as poems.
Olympic games the poems of Homer and Hellenistic culture are associated with which ancient civilization?
ancient Greece
Was Homer a woman?
No he was not. women were not allowed to write epic poems in ancient greece
When and where Homer lived?
Ancient Greece He told stories about Mycenaean History Poems.
How does Greek mythology still influence us today?
Because Apollo was such a popular god of the Greeks many aspects of his godhood are known and understood in to society today, namely of the arts of music, song and poetry; and that of healing, plague and disease.
What where the urban legends in ancient Greece?
You will find them in the poems The Iliad and The Odyssey, and the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurypides.
What is the name of one person who wrote an epic?
Homer from Ancient Greece is said to have written the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey.
What is the sacred text of the religion in ancient Greece?
The main sacred text is Iliad and the Odyssey which were a series of poems written by Homer
