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Ancient Greece
The ancient greek civilization starts around 3200 BC with the Cycladic civilization [followed by the Minoan (2700 BC) and the Mycenean civilization (1600 BC)] and flourished from the 7th century BC to the 2nd century AD, especially in the 5th century BC with the city-states of Athens and Sparta.
10,833 Questions
List three important values in classical Greek society?
Athens was the center of greek society, the upper class of athens valued order, humanism and temperance and wisdom
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What was more common of ancient Greek plays - comedy or tragedy?
Yes! Greek tragic playwrights like Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripedes, and Greek comic playwrights like Aristophanes, are still remembered and read today, and many theatre companies still perform their works. They have timeless themes and characters, and are very well-written plays that still resonate with modern audiences.
What did Greeks do to retarded children?
In Sparta, newborn children who did not measure up to the Spartans' stringent standards, were left on a mountain ridge to die as a matter of policy. Elsewhere in the Ancient world and Greece, the same happened - although not as a matter of State policy - when it was immediately visible that a child was handicapped and would be unable to survive or provide for himself.
Very probably a number of retarded children survived this selection, since many forms are mild and not easily visible immediately after birth. And anyway, 50% of all children died from all kinds of illnesses before age 14 back then; the weak ones first of all. But most people lived a life filled with simple, menial work. As long as a child survived childhood and was able to help in some way with the work in the fields, the household or the workshop his existence would be tolerated and mild forms would often be hardly or even not at all noticed. If a 'retarded' child or adult would be a danger to himself or to to the people around him or her, he would be simply locked up.
What was some of the mythical creature in ancient Greece?
Centaurs,
Cerberus,
Charybdis,
Chimera,
Empousa,
Gorgons,
Graeae,
Harpies,
Hippalectryon,
Hippocampi,
Hydra,
Ichthyocentaurs,
Minotaur,
Manticore,
Furies,
Ophiotaurus,
Nemean Lion,
Pegasus,
Phoenix,
Sphinx,
Stymphalian Birds,
Lastrygonians,
Giants,
Cyclopes,
Dragons,
Drakons,
Talos,
Hyperboreans,
Pygmies,
Satyrs
What did Pericles do for the democracy?
The Greeks were not under Pericles. The Greek world comprised hundreds of independent city-states with different forms of government. Pericles became First Citizen of the city-state of Athens. Pericles consolidated direct democracy in Athens, that is all the citizens of whatever property class were able to attend the meetings of the Assembly held a couple of times a month to vote on laws and policy decisions (as opposed to representative democracy, where citizens elect representatives to a parliament which enacts laws). Also, persons for public office were selected by lot, which meant that any citizen could hold the highest offices in the state (appointment of generals was excluded from this - the people weren't that suicidal, they wanted real talent there). In addition, the judges at trials were large juries (typically 400, but up to 2,000), also chosen by lot. In addition Pericles made sure of his popularity be putting nearly a third of the citizenry on the public payroll, so that they would share in the prosperity of the state (this prosperity came to a large degree by hi-jacking the funds of the Anti-Persian league which Athens led and collected the funds for, and held on the Parthenon). Athens encouraged the allied and subject cities in the Anti-Persian league (read Athenian empire in its later stages) to adopt radical democracy as had Athens.
What is the strophe of the Greek chorus?
If you read The Oedipus Trilogy its many examples of a chorus. The first chorus is: CHORUS Sweet-voiced daughter of Zeus from thy gold-paved Pythian shrine
Wafted to Thebes divine,
What dost thou bring me?My soul is racked and shivers with fear.
(Healer of Delos,hear!)
Hast thou some pain unknown before,
Or with the circling years renewest a penance of yore?
Offspring of golden Hope, thou voice immortal, O tell me.
What is the ancient Greek meaning of the word Olympics?
The word came from the mountain "mount Olympos" in Greece. Όλυμπος also Olympos. It is where they believed the God Zeus lived and the first olympic games were held there. The games were competitions held between athletes from the city-states of ancient Greece. The first competition took place in Olympia, Greece in 776 BC.
The Macedonian leader who spread Greek culture throughout the Middle East?
Answer:
Alexander the Great
Which city-state won the Peloponnesian War?
No city won.
The Sparta alliance with Persian backing defeated the Athens alliance or empire.
How were the Greeks able to defeat the Persians?
They first defeated a Persian force at Granicus and massacred the Greek mercenaries hired by the Persians to give them the armoured infantry they lacked - this stopped Greeks hiring themselves out in future, and so left the Persian unarmoured infantry to face Macedonian armoured soldiers.
They then captured the coast of the eastern Mediterranean Sea which stopped Persia operating naval forces against mainland Greece, thus securing their home cities and source of recruits while they fought in Asia.
They then defeated the Persian main force at Issus and captured the Persian treasury, giving them the financial resources to pay and feed their soldiers and augment their mercenary archers, light infantry and cavalry..
With this augmented force they then attacked the main Persian force again at Gaugamela and defeated it decisively. Coordinated resistance ended and they picked off the rest of the Persian piece by piece over the following few years.
his admiration for success
the same way we do today? minus the technological side of it.
How did ancient Greeks practice monarchy?
The monarchy of Mycenae was important to Greece because they descended from Perseus. The monarchy of Argos was important because they descended from Hercules. The monarchy of Corinth was important because they descended from Jason.
Why weren't women allowed to act in ancient Greek theater?
Men played womens roles in greek theatre and, all of the men wore masks, women hardly came out of the house let alone do a play in the theatre.
Did the Ancient Greeks invent coins?
That's debatable. Most scholars consider the Greeks to have invented coins, but other places such as China could be considered earlier. As long as there was a free market, metal currency, property rights involved, the civilization technically has money.
What did the Athenians grow in ancient Greece?
According to Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, grain was imported from the Fertile Crescent into Greece, where it sparked a civilization revolution. However, grain can be grown almost everywhere in Greece, provided with soil and nutrients.
How did Greek Philosopher Aristotle describe tragedy?
Greek philosophy describes tragedy as an "imitation of an action"
Why was ancient Greek divided into a collection of city states?
Ancient Greece was broken up into different city-states because the mountainous terrain of the Greek Peninsula made it difficult to create one large community.
Why did ancient Greeks create art?
Because they were just as "smart" as we are today!
They appreciated beauty just as much as we do now,
and similarly wanted to capture that "beauty" on walls
or by carving/creating other significant objects.
