Greek Language and Culture

Greek = a greek man: Έλληνας (ellinas, pronounced Ell-ee-nass)

Greek = a greek woman: Ελληνίδα (ellinida, pronounced Ell-ee-nidd-ah)

Greek = a greek child: Ελληνόπουλο (ellinopoulo, pronounced Ell-ee-no-pooh-law)

Greek = something Greek: ελληνικό (elliniko, pronounced Ell-ee-nick-oh)

Greek = the language: Ελληνικά (ellinika, pronounced Ell-ee-nick-ah)

Because an oracle told him his grandson would one day kill him and take his throne

Παρακολουθώ [parakoloothO]

The greek word for advertising is διαφήμηση, and it is pronounnced thee-a-fee-mee-see

The closest is probably curiosus (literally "inquisitive one"). The Curiosi were a class of spies, informers and secret police in the time of the Roman Empire.

Αυτοκτονία (aftoktonea)

goddess of beauty

Alexander the great king Phillip the II

The short answer: Because his audience did not consist of ancient Greeks.

Alexander the Great was Greek so like all Greek youths grew up with stories of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and the Greek heroes, of history, myths and legends. He was raised attending the odeon and watching plays by classical Athenian tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides who were all favorites of his father Philip II and whose works formed part of the proper education of a Greek.

Alexander participated in festivals and religious events like the Dionysian festivals and would have attended the Olympic and various other Greek games of Greece. Macedonia had always been a hub of cultural activity with Classical Greek intellectual visitors often seen at royal court. Visitors such as the lyric poet Melanippides and the renowned medical doctor Hippocrates at the court of Perdiccas II, or Pindar's 'enkomion' written for Alexander I which was probably composed at his court. As a Greek, this would have been Alexanders childhood world.

In his formal education, Alexander was first tutored by the strict Leonidas, a relative of his mother, and by Lysimachus of Acarnania. In early childhood, Alexander was raised learning to read, play the lyre, ride, fight, and hunt.

When Alexander was 13, Philip overlooked such academics as Isocrates and Speusippus and chose Aristotle to tutor Alexander and his noble companions, providing the Temple of the Nymphs at Mieza as a classroom. Plutarch describes Alexander's studies with Aristotle. Subjects included ethics, politics, medicine, natural philosophy and unstated esoteric knowledge, which may have been metaphysics. He also studied Homer and carried with him on his campaigns a cherished copy of the Iliad.

Correct Answer: Alexander the Great created trade routes that disseminated the Greek language, customs and civilization which were then fused with local culture and spread further. After his death his generals maintained the process until the collapse of their empires. By then new empires had emerged and they fused Hellenism with their own culture spreading the Greek civilization further still, impacting the whole world to the present day.

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Alexander the Great and his generals were Macedonians. When Alexander took over the Persian Empire he tried to introduce Greek culture as a 'civilising' influence. After his death his generals divided the empire amongst themselves ad kingdoms and continued the process - with limited success.

Greek influence started very early on in the history of the Romans and (more widely) of central and southern Italy. The Greeks established colonies (settlements) in southern Italy and Sicily from the 8th to the 7th century BC. Being a more advanced civilisation, their arrival had a big impact on all the Italic peoples they came in contact with during their archaic (early) period. For example, Etruscan civilisation arose out of trade with and deep influence by these Greeks in what has been called the orientalising period, where the Etruscans adopted Greek motifs for their pottery and Greek architectural styles. The Italic peoples also adopted and adapted the western Greek alphabet to create their own written languages. This included written Etruscan and written Latin (the Romans were Latins). Recent archaeological evidence has shown that the Latins were influenced by the Greeks of Cumae (a Greek city near Naples, just 125 miles south of Rome) as well as the Etruscans in their archaic period.

The Romans started using the books of the Sibyls of Cumae already in the 6th century BC. The Sybils were Greek oracles, some of whom lived in the mentioned Greek city of Cumae. The Romans also adopted the Greek god Apollo, who was an oracular god (the god of the oracles) and built the Temple of Apollo Medicus (the doctor) in in 431 BC. Apollo's son, Asclepius, was also adopted. The Senate was instructed to build a temple in his honour by the Sybils in 293 BC. The Romans also procured a statue of him from Greece. The Romans adopted the Greek twin gods Castor and Pollux and the mythology associated with them by the late 5th century. During the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) they 'imported' Cybele (whom they called Magna Mater, Great Mother) because Sibyls said that with this Rome could defeat Carthage. Later on, the Romans also linked their own gods to the Greek gods and to their associated (Greek) mythologies.

Greek influence on the Romans increased with the conquest of the Greek city of Tarentum (in the heel of Italy) and with the later contact with mainland Greece. Educators from Tarentum went to Rome. This led to the adoption of the Greek model for education in Rome. Contact with mainland Greece led to increased Greek influence, leading to the adoption of Greek models of poetry for Roman drama and comedy, Greek philosophy (Stoicism and Epicureanism), Greek sports, and the like.

The three types of ancient Greek plays were comedy, tragedy, and satyr plays.

He was Greek and Greek was his culture

Both civilizations included people who worshipped many different gods. lol you guys rely on us and we fail too often

Παρακαλώ (parakalo = the answer the greeks give when they receive a "thank you". Parakalo also means "please" in greek.

the grekk history was mainly influenced by the mountains and seas

Ask Mr. Marvin Smith.

The answer is odes ;)

odes is the way O D E S

The Lotus Eaters were not described physically in Greek Myth.

I don't know what they looked like, but they would convince you to want to stay on there island with the lotus flowers.

The answer is Eos, it is a VW convertible

Sofia (σοφία) is a greek word that means wisdom and it is used unchanged from the ancient times until nowadays. Τhis is also a greek female name: "Σοφία" (sofeea).

Greek - ekriximania

Latin - explosomania

Omega.

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Omega (Ωω) and Omicron (Oo). Both sound like o nowdays.