The notion of public literacy remains an often-overlooked legacy of the Ancient Greeks. The Ancient Greek invention of an alphabet made this possible, as phonetic letters made literacy accessible to anyone capable of learning the sounds of oral vocabulary. Previous advanced societies, which relied on...
Greece is the birthplace of some of the world’s greatest minds, like Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Democritus, Pythagorassome. It is where mythology originated, so you can thank the Greeks for mythological gods like Adonis, Hercules, Perseus, Orion, Athena, etc. And of course, Greece is the...
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Ancient Greeks worshipped the gods of Mount Olympus. However, the ancients also believed in gods who resided in places which were not as cozy as the home Zeus ruled on a mountain. There is one god that struck fear into the hearts of the ancient Greeks because he ruled the underworld, wh...
Someone of very low intelligence. For the ancient Greeks, an idiot was a private citizen, a person not involved in civil government or politics. Related: idiosyncracy, idiom, and other individualistic words. metropolis The Greek roots of this word are “mother” and “city.” Socrates, convicte...
The best dramas, according to the ancient Greeks, would allow viewers to have feelings like lust, hatred, anger, pity and fear and use them up, thus restoring their spirit to go about their lives without the burden of such feelings. The English Take on Tragedy Almost a thousand years ...
Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses History | 7-14 yrs | Interactive 7 List of Greek gods and goddesses of Greek mythology The Greeks worshipped their Gods devoutly as they strongly believed that the Gods could change their lives for the better. The Gods lived on Mount Olympus, the highest ...
She was the goddess of health, cleanliness and sanitation and afterwards, the moon. Salus on Ancient Roman coins –Salus (Health) a Goddess of the Romans, the same that was worshipped under the name of Hygiea by the Greeks, who feigned her to be the daughter of Asclepius and of Minerva...
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Ancient history The List as Treasury in the Greek World UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIABERKELEY Leslie V. Kurke KirkAthena ESome of the earliest written records in the greater ancient world are lists of objects: we find catalogues of gods, kings, jewels, archaic vocabulary items, and exotic birds in ...