...The unique geography of Greece has had impacts on the Ancient Greek civilizations. The impacts were both negative and positive. The of mountains of Greece negatively impacted ancient Greeks by forcing them to live in independent communities cut off from one another. The second negative impact the geographic make up of Greece had on the ancient Greeks is its location. Greece is located on the intersection of two fault plates and in an area of high volcanic activity. Due to these environmental factors the environment of ancient Greece was unstable. The people of ancient Greece lived in a constant state of uncertainty. They were forced to wonder if there would be a natural disaster. The mountains also had a positive impact on the Ancient Greek civilizations. The mountains of Greece made travel by land difficult, so many ancient Greeks turned to the sea as a means of travel. The sea also became an economic benefit for the Ancient Greeks. Another positive affect the geography of Greece had on the Ancient Greeks was the location was good for growing olives....
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...Geography of Ancient Greece Definition By Michael Falangus Image Results Yahoo.com Geography (from Greek geographia, meaning ‘earth writing’) was first used by Eratosthenes (276 – 194 BCE), and he was believed to be the first to accurately estimate the earth’s circumference. Geography is a field of science dedicated to the study of location, landscape, climate, and human/environment interaction. The geographical features of ancient Greece had a vital impact on its economic, political, and cultural history, and these features contributed to both its limitations and advantages. The homeland of Ancient Greece can be found at the tip of the Balkan Peninsula with over 1,000 islands in Southwestern Europe. It is surrounded by the...
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...Daniel Smithson HIS-321 (Ancient World of Greece & Rome) Analysis Paper Greek Culture / Society and Homosexuality Greek Culture / Society and Homosexuality By Daniel Smithson Southern New Hampshire University HIS-321 Professor Charles Disantis Daniel Smithson HIS-321 (Ancient World of Greece & Rome) Analysis Paper Greek Culture / Society and Homosexuality Ancient Greece: The golden age of the Grecian empire said to span the years 500 to 300 BCE. This time gave breath to the great philosophers Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates. This was also the time of great playwrights such as Aristophanes, Sophocles and Aeschylus. How did the Greeks maintain familial ties in a culture with more sexual freedom and seemingly non-existent sexual stigma than today? Grecian Patriarchal Society: Although the Grecian people valued family life, Greek society was stalwartly patriarchal in its social-political structure. The men of Greece coveted the aesthetic of the male form and enjoyed nude wrestling in the arena. Grecian men often shared what we today would call “Homoerotic” or “Homosexual” experiences, Indecorous witticisms illustrated in the compositions of Aristophanes and many other playwrights. Sexual fluidity among men was an intrinsic characteristic of Grecian society. In the Iliad Homer tells the story...
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...culture that is made by men to be seen a loved by others some examples would be; sculptures, paintings, inventions and even pottery. Those are just a few examples of an artifact what kind would you like to learn about? How would you have known you seen an artifact of your culture or another’s culture? Artifacts can be everywhere around us in our daily lives and really wouldn’t know it unless you actually know what an artifact is. Artifacts are in numerous shapes and sizes some of them are in sculptures, paintings, coins, inventions and pottery plus many more. Why do we take a trip back to the past and learn about an artifact from another country dealing with their culture? The artifact that I have chosen is Kleobis and Biton from the Ancient Greek period. This is a well-known sculpture made out of bronze came from the Archaic and around the 600BCE time period. It is of two young men almost standing in the nude and was either votive or the commemorative nature. This artifact is was depicted standing in a frontal pose with their left leg moved forward, as well as their arms was close to their bodies touching the side of their thighs. This artifact was an exhibit strict symmetry as the different parts of anatomy are depicted as simple geometric forms. The Kleobis and Biton relates to their culture in many different interesting ways. One way is that they begin to a refinement of form towards a definitive realism that was only possible through a society that revered the human form...
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...interaction between political units and mostly between states nowadays. Actually, there are many diplomacy activity executed by the political units since long time ago and one of them known as the first peace treaty between a king of Ebla (Syria) and the king of Assyria. There are few more diplomatic activities including the rulers of Egypt and Syrian 1400 years ago. The stages of development of modern diplomacy from its origins in 15th century Europe until 20th century, there are five things which need to be accomplished including the origins of the modern state in Renaissance Italy, the role of Florentine political thinker Niccolo Machiavelli, the parallel development of the modern sovereign and their modern diplomacy, the application of modern diplomacy to the classic European and finally the characteristics of the state, international system’s nature and the role of diplomacy. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the Europe shifted the diplomacy from medieval to modern. Since Peace of Westphalia had change the...
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...budded and bloomed into five billion Bibles—propagating further into 2,123 leaf-like lan-guages—is the humble but enduring Nile River African pa-pyrus plant. Chocolate everywhere. Other Noteworthy Papyrus Manuscripts With the total corpus of Dead Sea Scrolls in the posses-sion of different entities (including private collectors), it is difficult to ascertain exactly how many are papyrus. One thing is for certain, papyrus from Africa’s Nile Riv-er formed the infrastructure of the Old Testament as repre-sented by the Dead Sea Scrolls. Might it have done so for the Greek version of the Old Testament as well? African Septuagint Manuscripts Just as the earliest manuscripts we have of the Old Testament are made of Black African Nile River papyrus, the same is true of the earliest manuscripts we have of the Greek Septuagint....
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...Many Greek-Americans that I know, as well many members of my own family, emigrated from Greece to the United States between 1950 and 1974. It appears that Greeks have always looked beyond Greece and travelled abroad in search of opportunity and perhaps adventure. Like salmon, they generally prefer to return to their birthplace at the end of their life, but often spend most of their lives abroad. The Council of Greeks Abroad estimates that there are at least as many people who consider themselves “Greek” living outside Greece as there are in Greece. The Greek tendency to wander, seek adventure and conquer new lands dates back to ancient times when Greeks founded settlements throughout the Mediterranean world. Traditionally the sea was the way to foreign lands and as a result Greeks presently control a majority of the world’s ocean-going merchant fleet. Greek emigration to America began prior to the creation of the modern Greek state in the early 1800s. Greeks began arriving in the New World in the 1600s, but most of the immigration from Greece to the United States took place during two time periods in the 1900s. The first wave of Greek immigration to the United States was from 1890 to 1924. A series of wars in the Balkans and Asia Minor caused large populations to be displaced, and more than a million refugees to settle in Greece. This caused additional strains on the meager economic and food resources in a nation already devastated by two decades of war...
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...Greek and Roman Comparison Lisa Lain HIS275CA June 1, 2015 Zachary Lenz Greek and Roman Comparison The Greek and Roman empires were very important to the history of the world. With their empires came religions and philosophies. While their religions were much different, both the Greeks and the Romans turned to Christianity at some point. Their philosophies were also quite different. They each studied the building blocks of the universe and created their own theories. With any empire come societal struggles. Both the Greek and Roman empires dealt with such struggles but the main aspect of the struggles varied. Territorial expansion was very important in both the Greek and the Roman empires. They both sought out to find more land and fought for the land they found through wars and battles. Trade and commerce were a major contribution to both empires as well. While both empires traded different things both within their empires, they also traded outside of it. The Roman and Greek civilizations also dealt with a decline in civilization. The reasoning behind their declines was different, but both empires contributed to their own decline. Religions and Philosophies While the Greek and Roman religions differed greatly, they both turned to Christianity at one point. In the beginning religions, the Greeks and Romans alike believed in many gods. Each of these gods was believed to be a god of certain events. Both the Greek and the Romans worshipped their gods at temples...
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...Doing Business in Greece Introduction Greece is an extraordinary country rich in ancient civilization, famous for giving birth to democracy! According to (Business culture, 2014) Greece is an open economy that relies heavily on the service sector, while the remaining national output comes from the industry and agricultural sectors. On top of that Greece is still a significant agricultural and fisheries producer for Europe, but the tourist industry will always be the basis of the Greek economy, which Greece ranks 7th in the most visited countries in EU. It is approximately the same size as New York. It is located in southeastern part of Europe, hanging right down by the beautiful Mediterranean Sea, just east of Italy. Greek culture is rich in dramas, rhetoric, music, and philosophy dating back to Greece’s classical era. It is home to the mythological characters and their popular stories world-wide, The Greek Gods and Goddesses that we’ve watch in multiple movies and cartoon shows growing up, originated from this beautiful country. The most recent highlight from Greece is Sparta, the Hollywood movie 300, which showcases the historical connection between Greece and Persia. Greece finally became an independent nation in the 1800’s, joined the European community in 1981, and became a member of the economic/monetary union at the beginning of 2001 before their economic downfall. Demographics As stated in (Konstandaras, 2013) the total population of Greece is around 11 million...
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...imagination that caused him to form this theory? In eighteen fifty nine Charles Darwin formed a theory that gives an explanation to the question from what or where did mankind come from. Was this theory based on fact, or was it just based on the teachings of materialism philosophers’? The ancient Greek Philosophers Democritus and Leucippus believed in an early form of materialism which they called Atomism. They believed that invisible particles which they called atoms make up everything that exists. During the time period that these Philosophers lived in there was not enough technological advances to even realistically attempt to prove their beliefs as scientific fact. The Ancient Greek Philosophers were the educated community of their time. Like some Darwinism scientists today many of these Ancient Philosophers thought that people should accept their teachings because they were highly educated. Educated people are not always right about everything. A form of materialism called dialectical materialism developed in the late eighteen hundreds. The German Philosopher Karl Marx supported this philosophical belief. It was his belief in dialectical materialism that motivated him to create the political and economic movement known as communism. This means that Charles Darwin’s hypothesis about the Origins of Species may have been biased. It also means that college...
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...Modern Performance and Adaptation of Greek Tragedy Helene P. Foley Barnard College, Columbia University “Leave it to a playwright who has been dead for 2,400 years to jolt Broadway out of its dramatic doldrums” begins a recent New York Times review (December 4, 1998) of a British Electra by Sophocles starring Zoe Wanamaker and Claire Bloom. This fall the Times has repeatedly remarked on the “deluge” of Greek tragedy in the 1998-99 theater season: the National Theater of Greece’s Medea, Joanne Akalaitis’ The Iphigeneia Cycle (a double bill that combines Euripides’ two Iphigeneia plays), a revival of Andrei Serban’s famous Fragments of a Greek Trilogy, and a four-and-a-half-hour adaptation of the Oedipus Rex were announced at the start of the season. Off-off Broadway versions will inevitably follow. The Brooklyn Academy of Music even hosted a dance/theatre piece based on the Eleusinian Mysteries. 1 The Classic Stage Company, an off-Broadway theater group devoted to performance and adaptation of Western classics, currently receives more scripts that re-work Greek tragedy than any other category of drama. 2 From a global perspective, New York is simply reflecting a trend set by important modern playwrights and directors worldwide. Greek drama now occupies a regular place in the London theater season. In the past twenty years, acclaimed productions have been mounted not only in Europe but also in Japan, India, and Africa. Translations are even beginning to proliferate in China, occasionally...
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...INTRODUCTION Hello everybody, I am Stefanos Paliouras-Margaritis and my presentation is about the Piraeus Port, which is the largest Greek Seaport. The Port of Piraeus, as the largest Greek seaport, is one of the largest seaports in the Mediterranean Sea basin and in the whole world. Also has been the port of Athens since Archaic times. The port plays a crucial role in the development of international trade as well as the local and national economy, with more than three thousand employees who provide services to more than forty thousand ships every year. SOME ANCIENT HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT THE PORT Piraeus was the ancient port of Athens throughout the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods and in fact consisted of three separate harbors - Kantharos, Zea, and Munichia. The first was the largest and used for commercial activity and the other two smaller harbors were reserved for military use. All three harbors are still used today and archaeological remains include the foundations of several ship sheds, fortifications and a Hellenistic theatre. As the sea level has risen two meters since antiquity many of the ancient installations of Piraeus are now underwater but they continue to be excavated. Notable finds at the site over the years have included several bronze statues, which are hosted in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Piraeus Port today has a range of activities concerning the Commercial and Central Ports, ship services and real estate development. Piraeus...
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...During the Renaissance period, which spanned between 14th century and 17th century, an old genre of literature was reinvented into a newer form that was closer to the mentality and the social development of the time, that being the tragedy. This type of literature has its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman tragedy, which emerged around 2,500 years ago, in the 6th century BC. Tragedy, by its definition, is “a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences” (qtd. in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy). Tragedy is considered to have been invented for the worshiping of Dionysus , which they considered to be one of their deities . In Greek, “tragedy” is called “tragodia”, which means goat song, being composed of the words “tragos” which means “he-goat” and “aeidein” which means “to sing” which is believed to make a reference to an old custom of offering a goat in competitions of choral dancing or using it for ritual sacrifices, but not before dancing around it. The three big representatives of Ancient tragedy are Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Their work further represented the inspiration for the medieval tragedy which developed during 14th century Middle Age, inside cathedrals, a highly...
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...Antigone - commentary notes The Myth •Characters of a tragedy were not invented from scratch each time the writer composed a new play. •Images and stories inspired by myths were connected with every form of artistic expression and ceremonial ritual, proving that the greeks were not only familiar with a great number of mythical stories, but also made them to define themselves in the world and communicate their specific cultural issues. •In tragic theatre the characters were mentally close to the audience and shared the values of the democratic period in Athens. •The geographical characteristics of the mythical location, which usually existed in reality, could also be used in the stories and affect the dramatic events of the play. •The Theban saga of Lais and his children was one of the most popular in the Greek literary and iconographic tradition. The Festival •The tragedy of Antigone was presented in the theatre of Dionysus as part of a drama competition that took place every year during the city Dionysia, one of the city’s numerous festivals. •The city Dionysia, which was dedicated to Dionysus, god of fertility, wine and theatre, was one of Athens’ greatest annual festivals and aimed to celebrate the god’s arrival in Athens as well as the city’s wealth and prosperity. •The event took place in mid to late march when seagoing again became possible after the winter. •A rough schedule of the festival can be made as it developed...
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...Danny Dormevil Art History October, 2014 Neoclassical Art vs. Romantic Art The contrast between Neoclassical and Romantic art displays a stark change in artistic movements beginning at the end of the 18th century. Changes in artistic movements often are the result of massive social and political shifts in a region, and Neoclassicism and Romanticism are no exception. This refocusing on new perspectives and inspirations that forged these movements, both separate and in tandem with one another, applied not just to visual art, but to every art form, from music to play-writing, as well as philosophy and science. Romanticisms preoccupation with themes such as man’s relationship with God, nature, and emotions came in direct and deliberate opposition to Neoclassicism’s preoccupation with logic and traditional views on artistic technique. Neoclassical art emerged out of the Enlightenment, primarily in Western Europe. Art, of all kinds, during in this period were informed by Enlightenment ideals, which were largely reactionary against the Renaissance period before it. The Renaissance was defined by its tremendous scientific and artistic progressions. However, toward the end of the Renaissance, resentment was mounting against the scientific and philosophical figures at the head of the movement. Science had deevolved into a show, with alleged scientists performing experiments in a manor that felt more like parlor tricks through repetition instead of making real scientific developments...
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