Modern Day Athenian Culture

Ancient Athenians are known for many things such as religion, character traits, beliefs, dramatic structure, and government, intelligence and, philosophy. Their ways have a big influence on the way modern day Athenians act and how they way people views them. I chose this topic because I find Greek life interesting with the way they use myths to dictate their values. Ancient Athenians’ way of life and culture dictate their identity because how they see themselves. Athenians uses Homer’s Odyssey as a guideline for living because it depicts many of the beliefs they value highly. The Athenians values hospitality, loyalty, and being sly highly. Hospitality is the generosity and courtesy shown to those who are far from home. One example of hospitality
Perseverance is being able to be steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. Odysseus starts to show perseverance when they start to see the Cyclops was not a fan of visitors and starts to hold Odysseus and his men as hostages. Through all the terror, the Cyclops put Odysseus and his men through them did not give up and finds a way to escape the Cyclops (“Odyssey”259-335). Athenians learn is to always keep going. Leadership is the action of leading a group of people or an organization. He starts by telling his men what to so by instructing them to tie him when they pass the sirens (“Odyssey”686-698). This tells Athenians when they read this is leadership is important because giving direction to people and leading them is a skill you will need in life. Athenians tries to strive for the characteristics of
The personality of Athens city is one of a mixture of Eastern and Western cultures, and a fusion of modern and ancient structures. (“People and Lifestyle” 1). In a modern day Athenian society, we see them as happy and fun people that are very smart because of the way ancestors and are a mixture of Western and Eastern culture. The cultural legacy of ancient Athens to the world is incalculable and to a great extent the references to the Greek heritage that abound in the culture of Western Europe are to Athenian civilization (“Athens History and Culture” 1). . The importance moments in Athens culture gives us a brief history of where Ancient Athenians has upon people and other civilization. The legacy and history gives us an insight on the way they were see by modern day people not from Athens, Greece In conclusion, through research ideals of how Ancient Athenians way of life and culture have a big impact on the way we sees them. Most research views their government is too harsh, but the home of democracy. The way of life and culture dictate Ancient Athenians identity because of how their culture dictates their beliefs and the way we see them and the way they see