Greek-Greek Culture: The Traditions Of Greek And Roman Culture

Greek and Roman Culture

For the ancient Greeks, myth components of religions and a regulator of social life, providing traditions for some distant past. providing my knowledge about the mythology of Greek and Roman, history their god, and everyday lives.

Greek culture of the historical period including its mythology, before the Indo-Europeans arrive in Greece, origins of unknown people had already created a highly sophisticated culture on the island of Crete. huge place decorated with colorful wall painting. some society develops during the beginning of middle Bronze ages. when Indo-Europeans arrived in Greece near the end of the third millennium B.C, they brought with them horses and an aggressive warriors mentality, and the worship of male sky god name Zeus, head of the Greek

Mosaic is a Bizarre art-form, the practice of setting thousands of small pieces of stone, terracotta, glass and the like into mortar of time and labor. Pebble mosaics were made in Greece, and Mosaics patters and picture become common in Roman and Greece. Ancient Mosaic divided into two main categories, floors and walls. They both have different names opus tessellatum and opus museum. The use of mosaics on wall and vaults was much less common than in pavements. This partly became the greater cost of labor and materials on a wall. First among these is pebble mosaic, the original form of the medium. With the aid of selected pebbles of a different color, mosaicists of Greek times could produce decorated pavements of extraordinary subtlety and variety. The second type of mosaic is that formed of an irregular stone chip. Popular in Greek period, but found also in Roman Italy. Pebble mosaic of Olynthus, a Greek city which was destroyed by the Macedonians. A series of fine pavements from the dining-rooms of private houses in a suburb constructed during the last quarter of the fifth century