6 At their heart,the Games were a religious festival and a good excuse for Greeks from all over the Mediterranean basin to gather for a riotous barbeque.On the middle day of the festival a vast number of cows were slaughtered in honour of Zeus,King of the Greek Gods—once he had been ...
A great number of Greeks migrated to Syria, Asia Minor, the Nile Basin, and even to the Indus Basin, thus forming a great Greek cultural sphere. This expansion of Hellenistic culture laid the foundation for the political and spiritual unity of Christianity in the Mediterranean world under Roman...
As the Greeks took new pride in human achievements, they developed ideals of beauty, order, balance, and moderation throughout their culture, including music and drama.Early drama was associated with the worship of the god Dionysus and was an outgrowth of the choral songs and dances performed ...
Rolling a large rock up a hill takes strength, hard work, commitment, and patience. It is also so pointless that the Greeks mythologized it. However, rolling a rock up a hill is an accomplishment if you push the rock off the cliff at the top of the hill and it l...
so that human achievements may not become forgotten in time, and great and marvellous deeds--some displayed by Greeks, some by barbarians--may not be without their glory; and especially to show why the two peoples fought each other.'This was a radical blueprint for a study of the past; ...
The ancient Greeks used two words to designate time: chronos and kairos. The first one refers to sequential or chronological time, while the second refers to a suitable or favorable time for action. Kairos is very significant in Aristotle’s rhetoric scheme, too. It is the temporal and ...
For this—as with so much of theoretical mathematics—one must look to the Classical Greeks, whose groundbreaking achievements displayed an odd fusion of the mystical tendencies of the Pythagoreans and the severe logic of Euclid’s Elements (c. 300 bce). Get Unlimited Access Try Britannica ...
derivative. Greece had style; Rome had money. Greece was the inventor; Rome, the research and development division. Such indeed was the opinion of some of the more intellectual Romans. “Had the Greeks held novelty in such disdain as we,” asked Horace in his epistle, “what work of ancie...