Mycenaean Greece

about our religion and our Savior and the origins of it all. This city has left beautiful architecture that keeps people staring for days. With being present day Greece, Thessalonica is never forgotten. The location of Thessalonica is a significant place; it is located in the Central Macedonia region but exactly where present day Greece is (Thessalonica in 51 AD). The bodies of waters that surround Thessalonica are the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The history of Thessalonica has…

in the visual arts during these periods of Greek history. • Geometric Period: 900-700 B.C. - Depictions of humans returned to Greek art, and statuettes and vases were prime examples that demonstrated this. • Orientalizing Period: 700-600 B.C. - Greece had more contact with other civilizations, specifically those of Egypt and the Mesopotamia region, and thus eastern creatures such as the sphinx started showing up in art. • Archaic Period: 600-480 B.C. - Known for lifelike statues that depicted…

An individual living in Greece in the 5th century B.C.E would be better off as a citizen of Athens than as a citizen of Sparta. (better transition)During this time, Athens was swimming in cash. Where did they get all this money from? Athens got all of it from the Delian League. At first the league was created so that if Persia chose to ever attack again Greece would be ready. City-states apart of the Delian League would have to give contributions. This would typically be either money, men,…

Peloponnesian Wars were in the development of what came to be called the west, it becomes clearer that these two wars as well as the 50 years in between were essential to the "west." was due to the fact that ancient greece is the base of western civilization. The peloponnesian war was the downfall of greece. Thucydides the historian states that that the beginning started when all greeks joined to fight the persian invasion. Everything was great until one of the greek nation known as athens tried…

ancient Olympic games signify much more than athletics. The games represent a much bigger idea of peace and religion. While the athletics played a part in the games, the idea that people of Greece can come together without fighting for a while to compete in games to honor Zeus played another part. Men from all over Greece, in top physical condition from training for months in advance, traveled to Olympia to try and bring pride and fame to the town which they hail from. The Olympic games began as…

The Greeks architecture was an outstanding accomplishment for this Culture to thrive since it brought religion, and their gods and goddesses closer to the people living in Greece. For the Greeks, these gods exist very much in the real world, taking shape of humans, animals, and even often having sexual relations with humans. These gods have a physicality that is increasingly strengthen the belief that clod physical qualities are themselves an element of the holy. Greek Humanism also refers to…

Athens in fifth and sixth centuries BCE was extremely politically successful after Greece defeated the Persians twice, once in 490 and again in 480. It was seen to be the cultural centre of Greece, materially successful, artistically creative and had a huge political influence. These successes also caused philosophical thought to evolve. A group of educated men emerged during this time called the Sophists. The Sophists, whose name meant wise and informed, travelled and offered tuition on…

Ancient Greece Greece is one of the oldest countries today. It has a lot of history and stories attached to it. Greece also has a lot of geography attached to it too. Greece is very mountainous and has a lot of hills. With it being very mountainous land there where not many city-states that were established, because there was no way to get over the mountains to see the other people. This also caused trading to be a problem in the more rural areas of Greece. But trading is not a problem for…

Was ancient Greece the epitome of European culture and all its glory, or a culmination of Ancient Egyptian cultural influence? In Martin Bernal’s article “The Roots of Ancient Greece,” he argues that ancient Greece was not a result of influences from Hellenes, but actually Egyptian culture that was a result of the interactions between “Greek statesmen, scientists and philosophers who had studied in Egypt.” Through these interactions ancient Greece adopted Egyptian and western Asian principles…

The religion of ancient Greece is unlike most religions that we have in modern society today, especially American society. This country was built on Christianity, and so imagining how the Greeks worked can be difficult. They had no sacred religious texts; the descriptions of their gods came from Homer’s and Hesiod’s works (Schironi, September 29). They were polytheistic and the lack of sacred texts led to syncretism, adding more gods from different places. The gods were immortal beings that…