The Study of Modern Greek Language

The Hellenic Age and the Hellenistic Age are the two main periods in Greek history. The Hellenic Age is significantly different from the Hellenistic Age. The Hellenic period saw the rising and falling of the polis while Hellenistic period was plagued by warfare among the remaining dynasties. Despite the differences between the Hellenic and Hellenistic periods, the one thing that remained consistent in both periods was the Greeks' ability to not only advance science and philosophy but to strive for excellence in everything that they undertook including their ability to deemphasize the role of the gods in their lives.

1. During the Mycenaean civilization, who was the great poet and what were his two important literary works that influenced the Greeks and formed part of Western literature? Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey

The ancient Greeks highly valued the strength and power in a spoken word. Political, economic, cultural, and social life of the Ancient Greeks can be seen in their plays. They thus relied on words to communicating. Their desire to communicate and pass crucial information led to the creation of numerous plays across the region. The ancient Greek plays were both entertaining and educative thus reflecting on the kind of life that this person lived (Hogan 11). Their settings can suggest a lot about the circumstances and conditions under which this play was performed. The dramatic presentations were crucial to Athenians, a fact that can be seen from the numerous and well- spread theatres across the city. The paper will focus on how the ancient

1 .If a man is just, he willingly does just behavior while nobody is watching for the sake of justice.

What defines Greekness? What really is Greekness? These are important questions to ask because the answers to them will end up forming what we know today as the ancient Greeks. Professor Lynette Mitchell at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom partially examined these questions herself in her short paper Greekness (2012) which appears in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012). Professor Mitchell cites Herodotus 8.144.2 which is an examination of the topic of “Greekness” from Herodotus. In 8.144.2 Herodotus talks about why the Greeks would not sell out themselves to the Persians in 492 BCE because of their “Greekness”. Perhaps most interestingly, Herodotus not only references shared blood as an important aspect of what it means to be Greek but also “speech”, and gods / religious practices that that they have in common. Ms. Mitchell then builds off Herodotus’ explanation by referencing the importance of the Homeric Epic Poems, and examining the history of “cultural community”. Emma Dench of Harvard University also wrote a paper on the topic of Greekness and it was also appropriately titled Greekness (2002). Dr. Dench’s paper was part of a larger work by Jonathan M. Hall of the University of Chicago titled Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture (Chicago, 2002). Professor Dench is able to determine, through the examination of Herodotus’ Histories, that blood is a far less important trait in respect to Greekness then language, gods, or customs is. Through the

"Welcome to the happiest nation of the world," proclaims the slogan of a local beer at Copenhagen Airport. They are in debt, they pay the highest taxes in the world and they have long winters and tinged with darkness and... Danish people are recognized as the happiest people on Earth.

On November 24th, 2015 I visited my friend Jennifer at her home, as she had informed me that she would be babysitting her two year-old niece, Sophia that day. Prior to this encounter, I had only met Sophia twice. First, Jennifer and I were in the living room discussing various issues. Around nine o’clock in the morning we heard a knock on the door. It was Sophia’s father, Jose, who was dropping Sophia off on his way to work. He greeted us, however, Sophia was not a happy toddler. Yet, my first observation of Sophia was taking note of her crying and keeping her eyes on her father. I wondered were these actions by Sophia a mechanism to make sure that her father doesn’t leave her with Jennifer and I.

Anthropocentric view places humans as the center of this world, where we develop the commodity economy to own the other living/ non-living matters in the world because we are superior (Waters, 2011). Our language gives no life to objects and we try to teach the children that same language (Kimmerer, 2013). However, Kimmerer (2013) proposes that humans need to learn the aboriginal language and way of knowing, where they have a gift economy to see the goods as gifts from the Earth. Meanwhile, humans establish relationships with the nature as we need to repay back with gratitude, reciprocity, and care towards the nature (Kimmerer, 2013). In addition, Kimmerer (2013) talks about listening to languages that are not our own. We are so used to listen and speak in scientific language, which creates distance and objectifies the world we are living in. Rather, we need to really listen to the other languages, which brings life and

Imagine this: You’re sitting on your couch browsing the internet when you stumble across a website filled with Kappa history. Intrigued, you dive in. You are flipping through a General Convention scrapbook and exploring the history of (-- removed HTML --) . Then you see it: a picture of you during a philanthropy event. Those Kappa memories come rushing back. The nights spent with sisters working on the event, the laughter, the tears. Suddenly, you feel at home again.

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle 's early lives affected their careers and Greek society, and their deaths and works of literature affected today 's society. Socrates started out as a stone mason who eventually devoted most of his time to philosophy. Socrates ' works of literature reflect his world views and opinions. These opinions had a fatal consequence; he was persecuted for "corrupting the youth of Athens." Socrates was Plato 's teacher and instructor. Plato used his works of literature to show his viewpoints. In his book, The Republic, he covered a wide range of topics that included social, educational, psychological, moral and philosophical ideas. In this book and The Apology, Plato criticized Athen 's democracy for the persecution of his friend and teacher, Socrates. Plato then became the instructor of Aristotle. Through Aristotle 's life in Thrace, and his intense schooling at the Academy, he was equipped with all of the knowledge that he needed to become the wise philosopher he is known as today. Aristotle discussed some of his opinions through his book, Politics. This book mainly focused on his views of the government and society. His schooling allowed him to advance in all subjects and discover new ideas. All three of these philosophers not only had a lasting effect on Greek philosophy, but their ideas have also had a profound

The Secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new. - Socrates.It connects to ancient Greece Because Alexander the Great Was not like his father.He acted better than his father He acted like socrates.After Socrates die Alexander the Great went on And then he got bit by a mosquito On my way back home And he was only 25 when he died I bet Socrates If he was still alive but I bet he would have been real sad cuz Socrates was his teacher.

For seven days, we both recorded how many calories we ate for every meal of the day, as well as how many carbohydrates, proteins, sugars, fats, and sodium amounts we had. We decided to analyze how many calories we had each day because the calories were quantities with high numbers, and there was a lot of variance throughout the days. This would provide data for an interesting graph. We also decided to analyze your percentage of sugar intake daily in relation to your weekly total intake. We thought this would be interesting to show because it not only compared your daily intake, but also showed how each day was different for both people. To add to that, analyzing the sugar intake showed that since our diets leaned on different kinds of food groups, we both

My name is Hippomenes and I am a priest of Zeus. It is the late archaic period, 506 years since the fall of the Mycenaean civilization (1000”BCE”) and I am based at the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (298 “kilometers” from Athens). As a priest it is my job to oversee that all the sacrifices to the gods are performed correctly, make sure the prayers are spoken properly and to help maintain our glorious temple. I will be guiding you through the various aspects of my life as a priest and the aspects of the Hellenic world.

Although the ancient Greek civilization has been gone for centuries, their culture still lives on through their language, math, architecture, literature, philosophy, and more. One of the more fascinating aspects of ancient Greek culture was their mythology. It told stories of epic heroes achieving impossible tasks, gods and goddesses that rivaled one another, and weird creatures that roamed the land. These stories, once told orally, served as the Greeks’ religion and explanation for different phenomena.

Greek legacy is constituted or comprised of democratical implication in the development of an idealistic dichotomy, mainly dependent upon the relegation of the denominative aristocratical or dictatorial sovereignty, hegemony which often lead to plebeian subservience, they contributed the implication and integration of social class as well as monetary egalitarianism, within the constituency of a democracy, which was paralleled by citizenship and the requisites of the purification of the governmental system, which exploited the authoritarian aspect of aspect of government. The initial incontrovertible to radical dichotomy, was an empirical interpretation of sovereign control of a functional government that exacerbated the insurgents of a social