Mycenaean Greece

The final days of democracy in Greece are in fact the story of how Athens lived its last century as an independent state. The moment of fall has to do with its time when it shined the most over Greece: at the height of power as leader of Athenian league and leader of Greek culture. The city-state pattern of Greece created a reality of competition, individuality and community centered exclusively around each political community. That is why Greece never reached a national consciousness, even…

Classical Athens today is viewed as the golden age of arts and literature. Even after Greece being conquered by Macedonia, Parthenon still reminded the greeks of their cultural power with its uniqueness (Conelly). Parthenon motivated the Attalids in the 5th Century when they were faced with conquest by the fearsome Gauls. The Attalids fought…

The Parthenon and Pantheon are great ancient temples built in different times, they come from different cultures and time yet they share many similar architectural style. The Roman and the Greek culture have influenced the architecture around the world till date. The Parthenon may be one of the greatest architectural achievements by the Athenians in Athens. Athens was one of many Greeks city-state, In the 5th Century Athens was the most powerful city-state. This precinct becomes a sacred one…

architecture, philosophy, government, and math. Ancient Greece has probably had one of the most influential parts on our modern day lives. The arts were always extremely valued in Greece, so theatre flourished, particularly in Athens. The plot of the plays was always inspired by Greek mythology, a theme that is still common today. The main genres of these plays were tragedy and comedy. These genres, still exist in the modern theatre. In Greece they would mostly put on dramas and tragedies. It…

The Acropolis of Athens is probably one of Greece’s most famous attractions. Atop a massive rocky outcrop, you will find a citadel. Within the citadel, there are ancient buildings and architecture of great historic significance. One of the buildings is the world-famous Parthenon. There is also the Propylaia, the Temple of Athena Nike, and the Erechtheion, A Symbol Of Greek Legacy The Acropolis has such a cultural significance, that students around the developed world are taught about it when…

The buildings of Ancient Greece caused an architectural phenomenon. The use of pillars to support structures was a unique and renovating design. This architectural design is now easily distinguishable. If I compared myself to these exceptional buildings, what would be my pillars? What supports my whole life? What makes me recognizable and unique? Though there would be hundreds of pillars to my building of life, there are four that I consider the most influencing; my passion to create change, my…

What did you find most surprising in this film? I found the ability to understand the reasons that ancient cultures made art based on neurological research surprising. The work of the scientist on the film and the comparison to the seagulls was an interesting connection that I had not considered before. I thought that it was surprising that science and art could be intertwined in this way, explaining why civilizations from all over the world may have created art with similarly exaggerated…

The cause of the Persian War was because the Greek colonies of Ionia on the coast of Asia Minor were conquered by the Persians under Cyrus the Great. The Greek colonies had been founded with the full rights and privileges of an independent city-state and were independent from even the Greek city-state from which the colonists came. However, Darius decided to raise the taxes the Ionian city-states needed to pay to Persia. After the Persian threat was gone, several Greek city-states formed the…

Many of the Greeks thought that the gods felt like they had protected their superior form of government, against the invaders from Asia. Soon Athens had emerged from the war as the most powerful city-state in Greece. The Greek city-states still had to defend from Persia, to Athens and some other Greek city-states got together to form an alliance. Today modern scholars called the alliance the Delian league after the location where they had the meeting which Delos…

Mathematics: The Greatest Legacy from Ancient Greece to the Modern World The greatest legacy of Ancient Greece to the modern world is mathematics. Ancient Greece was the source of great mathematicians like Archimedes, Pythagoras, Euclid and Eratosthenes who provided the modern world with a strong base to the knowledge we have today. They gave the modern world hydrostatics, the volume of a sphere and the calculation of pi which is used to design impressive sea vessels, industrial tanks and…