Theatre of ancient Greece

The Movie 300 and the Real Battle of Thermopylae The Battle of Thermopylae. There may be some people who have never heard about it before, but it was the kind of battle that people made movies out of. The movie 300 was made in 2006 and is a retelling of this famous battle during the Persian Wars in 479 BC. This battle is of important significance due to the intensity of the battle itself and the outcome. This is the battle where 300 Spartans were lead into battle by King Leonidas of Sparta.…

thought it was quite interesting to see how the key elements that were discussed are evident in modern architecture. Many great buildings like the Lincoln memorial, White House, the Union Station, Arc de Triomphe have adapted many elements from the ancient Greek architecture such as: the friezes, sculptures embed in the structures and the grand columns that are made in front of the building. This proves that the overall presence of architecture is timeless and is used creatively even in modern…

lasted for 9 years. Then 4 years later the Spartans decided to burn the food supplies of the Athenians because they felt as though they had a good army, then after that, the Spartan won multiple wars, he led the Athenians to be the cultural center of Greece. In conclusion, The Spartans and Athenians had a well-developed civilization but my point of view a believed Athens was the best because they were better people vs Sparta they were very bad and dangerous individuals. They had different…

Antigone is torn between being a convenient, obedient citizen and a rebellious, law-defying woman in order to pursue her own moral self-interests. Antigone is portrayed as a strong-willed woman who strives to re-shape female stereotypes during ancient Greece and in doing so, clashes with King Creon, and her own sister, Ismene. Antigone has no regard for life as she perceives death as a glorious reward that will satisfy her motive to bury her dead brother, Polynices. Antigone’s actions begs the…

The death rituals in Ancient Greece were some of the most interesting aspects in this society. The ceremonial rituals surrounding death during Ancient Greek society were not only incredibly important to the people, but were also one of the most honorable practices someone could do to remember a person. Death rituals represented the passage to the afterlife and how the ritual was carried out determined how the person would thrive in the Underworld. Just like in Antigone, women had the privilege…

The excerpt from Graffiti from the walls of Pompeii tells readers what daily life was like in Pompeii. Pompeii was located in ancient Rome and was considered a city. The sources title “Graffiti from the walls of Pompeii” is quite literal because the writings actually came from graffiti on walls in Pompeii. The sources of graffiti are very important to archeologist because it gives them an inside look at what life was like in Pompeii. It can tell one what they mainly focused on in their community…

Historically speaking the play Antigone was always a form of propaganda against Thebes. The Athenians at the time were encouraged to demonstrate against Thebes’s culture i. On one hand Sophocles’ plays can be described as a cultural protests against the tyranny of the Theban government; And on another they can be considered as Sophocles weapons of choice as a deviation from the Theban style of writing and creating a new identity to the Athenian plays .He achieves this by radically changing the…

Athens and Sparta are the two most well known poleis of ancient Greece and each was known for the structure of its society. In this essay I will discuss how people in those societies obtained the right to participate in public life and make community decisions, identify who held public office, and how public office holders were elected. How those two societies were similar and how they differed will also be discussed throughout this essay. Both Athens and Sparta had a societal structure based…

differences, the similarities between the two statues are remarkable. To the naked untrained eye these two statues might even be mistaken from the same culture. However, the statue of Augustus is from Roman culture and the statue of Doryphoros is from ancient Greek culture. These two works of art seem very similar because Roman art and culture borrowed many ideas from the Greeks and sculpting is just one of them. Augustus of Primaporta was sculpted in the early first century during the…

Many readers and historians refer Athens and Sparta as the two leading city-states of Greek Civilization. It was a period of time where empires were slowly coming into the ancient world. Athens and Sparta were growing and flourishing. Ancient Greece was rising. As these two city-states grew, so did the ideas on how they should lead and run their city-state, which lead to the two societies sharing and disagreeing on the same ideas or coming up with different ideas. There were many similarities…