As an attribute of Apollo, the god of prophecy and music, the lyre to the ancient Greeks symbolized wisdom and moderation. Greek lyres fell into two types, exemplified by the lyra and kithara. The kithara was apparently of Asiatic origin, the lyra either indigenous or of Syrian provenance. ...
As an attribute of Apollo, the god of prophecy andmusic, the lyre to the ancientGreekssymbolized wisdom and moderation. Greek lyres fell into two types, exemplified by thelyraandkithara. The kithara was apparently of Asiatic origin, thelyraeitherindigenousor of Syrianprovenance. Both shared the ...
Contrary to this view, the ancient Romans, just as our modern society, had ingrained into their society the beliefs that each gender had certain distinct expectations placed on it. These expectations influenced how one was expected to behave in every type of interaction them participated in, not ...
The Romans had many gods and goddesses. Most of these were the same ones that the ancient Greeks worshipped, except that they had different names. The original religion of the early Romans was so modified by the addition of numerous and conflicting beliefs in later times, and by the assimila...
Coins, a means of exchange that the Greeks had adopted from the Lydians in the seventh century, gained universal acceptance. Certain cities, such as Delphi and Olympia, became religious centers for all of Greece. The increasing number of slaves in the cities strengthened the position of slave...
During the period of the primitive communal system, the mythological religious conceptions of the ancient Greeks were dominated by totemistic, fetishistic. and animistic ideas of the inseparability of an object’s spiritual essence from the object itself. The god Zeus, for example, was conceived ...
The Ancient Greeks were known for their intellect and strength of will. Because of its strategic location, they also were susceptible to invaders. When they weren... Read More Top Ancient Greek Plays Theater was very important to the culture of Ancient Greece. Greeks embraced both comedy and...
For some, there is this assumption that ancient medicine was somehow false, crude and barbaric. But modern western medicine owes much to the Greeks and Romans, civilian and military, who travelled the Empire caring for their troops and gathering what knowledge and knowhow they could. ...
The lyre, borrowed from the Greeks, was essentially an early harp, with a frame of wood or tortoise shell and various numbers of strings stretched from a cross bar to the sounding body. The lyre was held or cradled in one arm and hand and plucked with the other hand. The Romans ...
The basic Greek scale ranged two octaves and was called the Greater Perfect System. Central to the scale system…Read More percussion instruments In percussion instrument: Antiquity …a country regarded by the Greeks and Romans as forming part of Asia rather than Africa (a practice that will be...