Ancient Greece
"Perhaps you think your granddad's old? Perhaps you've got antiques? But those aren't really old at all. Compared to Ancient Greeks. They lived thousands of years ago. Way back in ancient times. -Paul Perro
There is lots to learn about ancient greece. How they ate or how they hunt or maybe they just went to Punt! The food and drinks that made them full. Or the art now in the mart. There is ton to learn about Ancient greece. Ancient Greece has full-action, non stop, amazing information. The food, religion, clothing,shelter, artistic expression, power and authority, and much more. There is lots to learn .
The Olympics (still going today) was super important to the Greeks. They did many sport. After they ran, jumped, swam. They was very famished. They went home and ate lots of food. The food they ate is similar to the food that we eat today. They ate cheese from goat and fish and arugula and asparagus and bulbs. They also ate cabbage and apples and figs and bird and chicken and much more.The land wasn't fertile. So they made the land fertile with irrigation.. Meat was eaten rarely but was used as religious sacrifice. The poor never ate meat except on religious festival. The cows and pigs were burned for the Gods and goddesses. Then they would hand out the meat to the people. Wine was the main drink they drank.They rarely drank milk but they used it to make cheese. They didn’t have eating utensils so they used their hands. When they ate soup, they used bread. symposiums is a dinner for only mens. They allowed the young boys and girls to entertain the guests. Breakfast and lunch was just a simple meal but dinner was their main meal of the day. To clean their hands they used bread to wipe their hands and the dogs or th...
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..." Archaic and hellenistic and the classic period is three different art concept. Archaic has the people stiff with their arms on their side. The classical period had the people relaxed which had a success. Hellenistic was a culturalistic period .Because Alexander the great conquered most of Asia, they were influence to make art about Asia conquered. Paintings were enjoyed and one of the most important art to the Greeks. Unfortunately, only a few painting survived because it was destroyed. The Greeks were talented at painting. We know this because of the pottery that did survive. The Greeks were also talented builders. They built the Acropolis and Parthenon which is both located in Athens. They are both one of the oldest and the best buildings. The structures were also inspired by Gods. Like the Temple of Olympian Zeus or the Temple of Poseidon or Temple of Apollo.
Although a country may be located in the same geographical area over an elongated period of time, that country is perchance susceptible to slight transformations, due to adjustments in the populations generational beliefs and practices. As the similarities between Archaic Greece and Classical Greece are bountiful, there are a few differences that have conclusively occurred. While both Archaic Greece and Classical Greece were set in a prolific time period, their philosophy, architecture, and art such as sculpting share similar characteristic, as well as contrast.
The ancient Greek civilization has left a rich cultural footprint on modern Western civilization. Especially during the ancient Classical and Hellenistic eras of Greece, ancient Greeks have left behind a plethora of ideas and concepts that have played a crucial role in forming the foundations to Western civilization. Although the Classical era was a time of war and conflict, it was the Golden Age of Greece that was the home to many achievements in art, philosophy, architecture, politics, and literature such as the birth of democracy. The Hellenistic era was a period of social and economic prosperity that was defined by the spread of Greek culture across the entire eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia. During this era, countless of advancements
Ancient Greek sculpture is celebrated for its ground-breaking representation of the human figure. Nevertheless, this prominent artistic established practice did not just emerge fully developed. Ancient Greek sculpture is generally branched in the various stages of progression: the three fundamental stages are the archaic, classical, and Hellenistic periods. It is also worth noting that there is an earlier phase referred to as the Geometric Period in which the characteristics that would come to define ancient Greek sculpture were starting to take shape.
The worship of gods was not just a practice for the Ancient Greeks it was a passion and they took it very seriously. Huge temples were built across the Peloponnesus and beyond that honored their respective gods in the Greek religion. Parades, sacrifices, banquets, and week long celebrations were held in honor of these gods that the Greeks based nearly their entire society off of. The Greeks would offer their lives, their family’s lives, all of their possessions to please the gods.
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The Greeks, made sacrifices to the gods, so that the gods would honor them, and help them in times of trouble. They sacrificed animals, and other things that were special to them.
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The Classical Greece era dates back to 500-323 BCE and was considered to be the period of maturity, discovery and achievement. During this era Athens was governed by a democratic government, there came a more rational approach to exploring and explaining the world and the Greeks took art to a more realistic and humanistic approach for the first time. (Sakoulas, 2002) During the Classical era the culture was based on a blend of their old culture and the new. The old is based upon religious beliefs while the new happens largely in part due to trade routes.
Greek art progressed through four divisible periods from ninth century B.C. to the second century B.C. The primary subject matter for all of these periods was humans. (Sowerby, 150) Each period progressed further than the last with developing the human form and making it continually more realistic and natural. (Boardman, 275) The most basic human forms were depicted in the Geometric period where triangles and ovals were used to make a rough human form. The Archaic period came next with artists slowly moving away from set geometric figures and incorporating more human detail into their art. Great change in art came in the Classical period. Sowerby states this by saying: "The classical artist concentrates up...
The Greek Olympic Games was very important to Greek mythology. Lots of people know about these games, but most people have no idea what made it popular, why they came up with it, and what events there were.
Ancient Greek agriculture was the very necessity of the empire. People needed food to work and soldiers needed food to fight, defend, and conquer neighboring empires. Nearly 80% of the Greek population was somehow involved in agricultural practices. In Greece, meat was expensive and available only to the elite. This caused the Greek diet to be based on cereals. The main cereal crops that the Greeks grew were barley, millet, durum wheat, and common wheat. The Greeks did not have access to many vast fertile lands since only 20% of the Greek land was in fit conditions to grow crops (Ancient History Encyclopedia, “Agriculture In Ancient Greece”). People looked to agriculture to keep their civilization running day to day.
Greece is a country with an interesting geography that is diverse in many senses. The location of Greece itself, as well as the lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere come together to form the cumulative geography of the country. These categories of geography interact with each other to form Greece as it is. The location, its longitude and latitude, effects the country’s climate, or its atmosphere. Likewise, the country’s relationship to water, the hydrosphere also effects the climate. This is just one example of how the different categories and characteristics of a place’s geography can effect it.
Life in Greece in ancient times would remind you of your own life in many ways. There was school, family, athletic competition, and social gatherings. Knowing that participants in their sporting events competed nude or that you rarely knew your husband/wife until the wedding day does however, make you grateful for the society that you live in today.
The older of the two, Ancient Greece was a civilization for three centuries, from 800 B.C. to 500 B.C. Ancient Greece advanced in art, poetry, and technology. More importantly, Ancient Greece was the age where the polis, or city-state, was invented. The polis was a defining feature in Greek political life for a few hundred years (Ancient Greece).
The Ancient Greek civilization was located on today’s Greek land, Ionian Islands, Asia Minor, South Italy, and Sicily. It is surrounded by mountains and in the north by water. The Ionian and the Aegean seas, together with natural islands and bays, gave the Greeks the opportunety to develop their maritime commerce and their rich culture. The mountains, which surrounded Greece, gave us the picture of its political character.