Essay on Ancient Greece

In the early fifth century BC, Greece consisted of many city-states allied in various factions or leagues. The alliances between these cities are difficult to understand. The alliances created a patchwork where

Ancient Greece became a very influential civilization. Founded by the Minoans who first moved to the island of Crete in around 2000 B.C and lasted to about 1400 B.C. The Minoans developed an advanced civilization and expressed their culture in their constructed palaces. Great monuments were reached at Greece’s Golden Age from around 500 B.C to 300 B.C. They created long lasting contributions in subjects such as Philosophy, Military, Health, and Government.

Ancient Greece had a major impact on the Western World due to many factors. Documents 1 and 2 reveal that the Western World has been impacted by political factors of the ancient Greeks, whille documents 4, and 5 show us that the Western World was impacted due to cultural reasons.

The identification of distinct civilisations in the Bronze Age made by Historians, overlap in time and coincide with the major geographic regions of the Greece. The Cycladic civilisation developed in the islands of the Aegean, and more specifically around the Cyclades, while the Minaons occupied the large island of Crete.The relationship of Thera to Minoan civilisation on Crete contributes to our understanding of Theran culture through artefacts such as pottery, art, architecture and trade. Thera, or also known as modern day Santorini, is within the complex of islands, Cyclades. It is a small, circular group of volcanic islands located in the Aegean Sea, about 200km south-east from the mainland of Greece and Crete which is Greece’s largest

One of the most influential Greek city-states was Athens. They used a democratic arrangement of government, and the involvement in democratic operation was restricted to citizens. Social, economic, and political situations impacted art; writing, sciences, and art thrived in fifth century BCE. Athletes, artists, and great thinkers transpired out of ancient Greece. The origination of diverse art formations demonstrated the political and economic

With the rise of Alexander “The Great” begins the Hellenistic Age which is used to describe a time which Greek culture spread to places like Egypt and Asia. Due to this Greek culture had changed from what it was during Classical Greece as they were able to achieve much more with this new diverse culture. The Classical Age of Greece is known for its work in philosophy and the arts. The work of Greek philosophers of this time such Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle cannot go unnoticed in these contexts as their accomplishments still have lasting effects on our world today. Along with the great work of these philosophers, came other great works in architecture and drama. Beginning in 448 B.C. Pericles began the construction of the Acropolis,

Ancient Greece was profoundly influenced by its geography. Many of Greece’s city-states were located on the mountainous rocky shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The mountainous landscape made it easy for Greeks to defend themselves against attacks just as the invaders found it difficult to cross and maintain an assault. “Additionally, the Mediterranean was susceptible to natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and powerful ocean storms, which meant that fledgling societies could be wiped out with little to no warning.” (Acrobatiq, 2014) While able to grow olives and grapes well in rocky soil, ancient Greeks were unable to grow or supply the plethora of crops and other raw goods needed to sustain an ever expanding civilization.

Nicholas Faddoul Chapter 4: Ancient Greece Section 1: Early Civilizations Mountains two peninsulas pretty much make Greece 80% of Greece is mountainous Plains and river valleys made up much of Greece Seas The Aegean, Mediterranean, and Ionian Seas make the borders of Greece The Black Sea was also an important Sea that the Greek used Minoans and Mycenaeans In 2800 B.C., was created a Bronze age civilization on the Island of Crete

Shortly, economic, political, and social cooperation between the Greeks and those around them became compulsory and similar. As shown in the Greek Colonization Map (chapter3) the procedure of Greek settlement became stronger on the coasts of Anatolia lastingly changing the cultural geography of the Mediterranean world and the swap of cultures from the Greek to others and vice versa, as a fast result of trade. The western shores of Anatolia held the Greek culture strongly for the following thousands of years. A large amount of Greeks settled in southern parts of Italy which the Romans called Magna Graecia “Greater Greece.” The hunt for bazaars, possessions, and trade paths indorsed more understanding between cultures. Trade involving long distance was significant for a new arising economy but also the pipeline for concepts, and technical growth. Egyptians admired Greek’s pottery and wool while, the Greek’s revered the Egyptians Canaanite glass, and amulets. As seen in Egypt And Its Neighbors Map (Chapter 2) this led to a greater mutual

Since Ancient greeks played a very big role in the history of Currency, they had made the coins and were the first who used it, especially in trade. And the sculptures continued representing Alexander form without the beard to nearly five hundred years. The famous Greek Classicism was surly the sculpture, more specifically “The Canon of Proportions” which presenting the human body ideally and continued for thousand years. The Ionic and the Doric were the main to styles that defined the beautiness of the greek architecture. The more formal one was the Doric style, but the Ionic one was decorative with details which later become famous in the Hellenistic period. However, at the end of the classical period, Athens kept being the first culturally

The last Olympic swimmer just touched the wall and the race has ended. Cameras are replaying every single movement from the race and a winner has been clearly decided. Just as these Olympic swimmers will gain a medal for placing, ancient Athens had numerous accomplishments of its own. Athens “prosperity … was due in large part to its stable and effective government” (SOURCE 1). When analyzing the history of ancient Athens, is easy to see how the accomplishments of a democracy, Greek philosophy, and Greek literature all shape Athens.

One of the earlier and much larger ancient civilizations that is widely studied are those of the Greeks. Ancient Greece is a very popular theme of study covered in many disciplines such as philosophy, science, history and anthropology amongst others. The reason for this, I believe, is primarily due to its complex social structure in ancient time and a strong sense of culture and ‘Hellenistic pride’ as portrayed in their art, literature and architecture. Due to the fact that Greece was never unified as political entities lived as ‘city-states’ and that independence would suggest variation in styles amongst the different city-states, more emphasis would be place on the pottery decorations of Athens and its immediate surroundings. For the duration

Following the downfall of Mediterranean Bronze age civilizations and the dark age of Greece a resurgence of writing, culture, and empire occurred. The poleis of Athens, Sparta, and Thebes rapidly expanded their population and cultural identity to transform from hamlets to powerful city states. With this expansion of identity and wealth of these poleis came a rapid rush of colonization on the surrounding Mediterranean islands and lands beyond. Although the exact causes and logistics of this phenomenon are greatly debated the impact the spread of Greek identity and influence had on the western world and Greece is incredibly significant.

Very few civilizations have had as profound an influence on the world as those of ancient Greece. The Greeks laid the foundations for fields varying from philosophy to political theory to war tactics. However, this influence was not just due to their intelligence or success, but their widespread presence in the Mediterranean. Greek culture was spread throughout their known world in two distinct manners, the foundation of apoikia in the Archaic Age (8th century to 500 B.C. ) and imperialists by poleis, primarily Athens of the Classical Age (490 - 323 B.C ). Though the culture of a mother city (mētropolis) may have spread through two very different manners of “colonization.” The word is not used in the literal sense, but rather hereafter used to mean “spreading of culture”, as the former can hardly be described using the contemporary definition of colonization and the latter was through Athenian empire-building. These developments had a significant impact on ancient Greece and our modern perception thereof. Like most of the ancient world, we can best analyze these methods of colonialism through extant artifacts. I will analyze an inscription of the foundation oath of Cyrene, which recounts the decision and manner in which the island of Thera sent its citizens to the form a new polis, and the fragments of the Lapis Primus, a marble monolith that documented tributes to Athens when the city was at the peak of its imperial age, evidencing the magnitude of their power and influence in the Greek region.

The Archaic period dates from 800 B.C. to 480 B.C. The Greeks were inspired by monumental stone sculpture of Egypt and Mesopotamia, sculpting in stone began in Greece. However, although this was inspired by Egypt, there were significant differences between how they were sculpted. For instance, take the Greek sculpture Kouros (c 580 B.C. made of marble, standing at 6’4” tall) the standing male nude. While this resembled characteristics of Egypt sculptures such as pose and proportion, his form becomes more dynamic as the sculpture is nude. Kouros also appears to wear jewelry around his neck and the exquisite detail in the braids of his hair suggest he is groomed and dressed properly. Another difference in Egypt and Greek sculptures, is that Egypt’s sculptures depict rulers and people of higher stature, where Greek sculptures would depict