Archaic Greece

There is a difference between religion and mythology. Religion is a set of practices based on the belief of non-human beings monitoring actions and myths are stories that matter within a specific community or communities. There are two kinds of religion, evolutionary and revealed. The Greeks had an evolutionary religion where the totality of things were feared by a social group and had no specific origin. Myth can be divided into three categories, the first being divine, which explains the…

bridge to the Western and Eastern Europe. 783,562 kilometer square is the total area of Turkey with 98% of land and 2% of water (Hodoğlugil and Mahley, 2012). The neighboring countries of Turkey include Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Syria, Greece and Bulgaria. According…

country in Europe. The Historic Macedonia was governed by the Roman Empire, by the Byzantine Empire, and by Turkey. In 1878, the Treaty of Stefano granted possession of the largest part of Macedonia to Bulgaria. However, Bulgaria was defeated by the Greece and Serbia in the Second Balkan War of 1913 and as a result, possession over a large portion of Macedonia was transferred to the Greeks and Serbs. On September 8, 1991, Macedonia finally achieved its independence and, in 1993, became a member…

Imagine yourself being stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere with a group of people you’ve never met in your entire life. Trying to keep everyone alive and under control. There is no order on this island since no one listens to anyone, no authority. So what do you do, you find something that gets a hold of everyone's attention. Something that is a collective ideal bringing everyone together. In our society we have this exact system that is in place, where we use one object or event to…

Greece is a country located in southwestern Europe on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula possessing a group of about 2,000 islands and covering more than 130,000 square kilometers of land. The country's official name was Hellenic Republic which is a historiographic term used for a series of councils and “Provincial Governments” during the Greek War of Independence. Greece shares borders with four other countries including: Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Turkey. Greece has a strategic…

One of the most ancient sports we have today is wrestling. It can date back to the ancient Greek empire, as people would fight against each other in the first Olympics. Wrestling has changed a lot since then, and well for starters people don’t fight to the death anymore. There are a few types of wrestling that are played today Greco Roman, Folk, Freestyle and more recently Female Wrestling. Wrestling is filled with rules, regulations, and a certain scoring guide to help make sport more…

Greek mythology is how the Greeks explained ancient Greece. Gods were important to ancient Greece because they believed if there were gods, they must have created or controlled their title. Greek life revolves around how gods wanted to be respected and pleased by humans. One of these gods is Persephone, also known as Proserpina in Roman mythology. Persephone, goddess of spring and the underworld, had powers of vegetation and plant life from her mother Demeter. Persephone lived on Mount Olympus…

In both eras each time created religious activities to thank their respected Gods. Religion played an important role in Minoan Crete and many activities, and artistic products revolved it. As evidence in the art of the period, the Minoans believed that man should live in harmony with the natural environment. For the Minoans they had religious activities for their nature gods they made several animal sacrifices as well as used music to dance and achieve religious ecstasy. They believed it would…

With all of these gods and goddesses to worship one might find it interesting that in ancient times Greeks had no shrines or sanctuaries devoted to public worship. Instead they performed their worship beneath the vast canopy of heaven, in the temple of nature. Believing that their divinities where located above the clouds. Sanctimonious worshipers sought the highest points accessible, to place themselves in the closest communion possible with their gods. Summits of high mountains were ideal for…

The idea of throwing discus first started in 708 B.C. in ancient Greece where it was used to test a male’s strength and coordination, it was also one of the first sport any Olympiad played. Even though many sports have changed drastically throughout history discus hasn’t. At first discus was used in a pentathlon which consisted of discus, jumping, wrestling, running and javelin, and now it is its own event. “The typical discus weighed between 4 ½ to 13 pounds.” Discus was eventually added to the…