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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
Which ancient greek developed an understanding of the use of the lever and pulley?
Most likely levers of some kind were used in very ancient Egypt (5000 BCE), and certainly one could say that they were used/invented well before the ancient Greeks came to the scene.
What does it mean to return home with your shield or on it?
ether came home home won the battle or die in it never surrender
How often did the Ancient Greeks go to the Theatre?
There were two major festivals of Dionysus that included theater: the tragic festival in the spring near the equinox, and the comic festival in the winter near the solstice.
How did Ancient Egypt influence us today?
Ancient and modern-day Egypt are slightly the same, and maybe even related. It is still a better life for the wealthy than the poor, and many Egyptians who are still alive today practice the crafts they made in ancient times, like basket weaving. Also, the Nile River is still very important to the modern Egyptians, just as it was many years ago. The flooding of the Nile was very predictable back then, so ancient Egyptians could decide when the Nile would flood and bring rich and fertile soil mixed with rocks, sometimes called silt. The Nile River still floods at about the same times, and still brings silt at the same time every year. Farming is also important to Egyptians today and long ago. Today, people gather plants such as clover to feed their animals. They still used farming for that purpose in ancient times. So one could definitely conclude that Egypt is still alike what it was in ancient times. On the other hand, Egypt has changed quite a bit from what it was thousands and thousands of years ago. People do not celebrate their religion as they did long ago. For example: · They no longer create mummies or pyramids. · They do not believe in the same gods and goddesses as they did in ancient times. · They aren't even a part of polytheism, or worship of many gods. · Most Egyptians are now Muslims and worship Allah instead of other goes. Another way that Egypt has changed is their government. Many millenniums ago, Egyptians believed that Pharaohs, their leaders, were sons of the god Horus, and therefore were gods as well. Nowadays, they do not believe in those gods, as I said earlier, and instead have presidents.
What did the ancient Greek assembly do?
One job is a government official.
but for more...
FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF!
thank you, and have a good day. :)
Which of the following elements of the dramatic tradition was developed by the Greeks?
Written scripts, Dialogue, and The tragic genre (all of the above apex)
How did Athens treat other city states?
It was ruthless in collecting the annual financial contributions from the majority of cities which elected to provide money rather than warships to stave off Persian intrusions. This was carried out by force where necessary - the Delian League fleet went around the couple of hundred cities of the League collecting it; there are records of cities being attacked to extract the money. The people of Naxos were sold into slavery, as were the Melians; those of Samos were branded with the letter S on their foreheads; all to remind the cities to pay up.
After peace was made with Persia, Athens continued to extort the money, but now used it to spend on itself, glorifying its city (Parthenon etc), put half its population on the public payroll, and send out 100 ships for the annual collection. Athenian leader Pericles admitted that Athens had turned the League into an empire of its own.
It then dragged them into a war with he Peloponnesian League which lasted 27 years and devastated the Greek world from Sicily to Asia Minor. Athens lost and was stripped of its empire, thereafter having to co-exist as a lesser power and on its own money.
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.
