Archaic Greece

have some leisure activities that we do today. When we study the history of leisure we can examine how leisure and its definition has changed over time and how some still exist today. An example is the Olympics; the Olympics was first recorded in Greece 776 B.C that lasted five days. These games, at that time, was organize to honor the Greek god Zeus. Furthermore, the first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens 1869 and still continues today. Another example can be as simple as fishing.…

I have chosen Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 13: 1-13 for my bible passage. In Paul’s day, Corinth was the largest and most influential city in southern Greece. Athens was considered the intellectual center of Greece, and Corinth was the commercial center. The city’s rise to prominence among the cities of Greece is attributed to its central location on the east-west route between Italy and Asia Minor. Corinth’s financial prosperity was the result of business activities, athletic…

The Minoan Palace and the Micenaean Citadel both have walls that protect them. However, they are both very distinct. Minoan Chronology has two main periods. The “old palace” period lasted from about 1900 to 1700 BCE while the “New Palace” period started around 1700 and it lasted until 1450 BCE. Sir Arthur Evans excavated the complex at Knossos in 1900 CE. The walls of the palace are practically earthquake-proof while the lower walls have dressed stone. Minoans created all kinds of extravagant…

by Ancient Greeks. Gymnastics was introduced by early Greek civilizations to facilitate bodily development. They did this through a series of exercises that included running, jumping, throwing, wrestling, and weight lifting. After Romans took over Greece, they made gymnastics into more of a formal sport. They used gymnasiums to physically prepare their men for warfare. With the decline of Rome, interest declined in gymnastics with only tumbling left as a form of entertainment. Once gymnastics…

technology more people had to work the land to produce enough food. Farmland was very important to the civilians, since this was their means to make money and survive. When the Dorians moved into mainland Greece it caused “land” to “become scare” (p. 116). Many people begin to migrate out of mainland Greece due to the migration of the Dorians and the “prospect of equal lot of farmland promised to new settlers” (p.116). Rich landholder used their “birth” as a means to collect their…

policies have had on their immigration and the contributions they have made to modern-day Australia. Push Factors Australia saw Greek immigration in varying eras and numbers, highly dependent on political and social issues experienced in Greece during history. Greece was devastated by the Great Depression of the 1930s. There was unprecedented high levels of unemployment which translated into mass poverty and great social unrest. Greeks during this…

Greek society is a very complex structure. With the amount of gods and goddesses worshiped, the rules of their society vary upon the distinct god or goddess in charge. For instance; if the weather is bad the Sky God, Zeus will need to be appeased. To do this, sometimes the Greek people hold a ritualistic sacrifice of human or animal life. The aroma is said to make the god happy, thus settling the Sky God’s temper. According to Greek tradition the gods are to be the first and last thought of the…

Crash! Bang! Pow! Zeus, the god of the sky- power from above, is raining down on the mortals of Greece. Greek mythology was often told to young children to explain unnatural events they would otherwise not understand (“Greek Mythology”). The deities lived on snowcapped Mount Olympus, the highest peak in Greece. They came down to the mortal world and often interacted with the common people. In many ways, the gods acted like the mortals by showing passions such as jealousy, love, and revenge. The…

Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.The Peloponnesian War reshaped the ancient Greek world. Athens, the strongest society in Greece before the war's beginning, was reduced to a weak city-state, while Sparta became established as the leading power of Greece. The Melians stayed that they were neutral in this war, they were neither allies, nor foes of Athens or Sparta. However, Athens did not agree to these terms, so they told the…

The main idea of Selim Deringil's article is to determine how Ottoman Empire, like the Habsburgs and Romanovs, tried to transform itself from a dynastic empire to a modern citizen-based state during the nineteenth century. He mentions the rising prestige of the national idea among these monarchies and how this idea leaded them to create an "empire nationalism". According to Deringil, that was the point when the public image of the state became a necessity to constitute an "Ottoman citizenry".…