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    Ancient Greek Beauty

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    The word “nature” comes from the Latin word natura‚ which then dates back to physis from Greek‚ meaning “birth”. In turn‚ something natural means it has developed its characteristics without interference to its intrinsic qualities since birth. The Ancient Greeks valued the idea of physis to the extent that it influenced their views about everyday beauty. To understand what this means‚ it is necessary to uncover the true definition of everyday beauty. This concept is subjective and is used to describe

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    Ancient Greek Essay

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    Developments in Science and Medicine in Ancient Greece Although no great revolution took place‚ Ancient Greece was a place of great thinkers and revolutionary ideas that expanded upon each other. It all began when the original thinkers‚ Thales‚ Anaximander‚ and Anaximenes‚ began to move away from mythological views and move to more rational and explained ones (Nagle 87). They wanted to know the answers to the big questions like – what is the universe made of and how did it come into being. Thales

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    The ancient Greeks were pivotal to western intellectual history. The western philosophical tradition started in ancient Greeks and would paint the pathway to future discoveries and knowledge. As the Greeks would improve the idea of the alphabet when the Phoenicians passed it onto them and would begin recording their ideas. These recorded ideas would finally be documented and help spread the ideas of philosophy. In addition‚ the ancient Greeks would set up the basic categories of philosophy to give

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    Ancient Greek Arts

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    The Ancient Greeks were very proud of their art so it’s not surprising that it is one of the most valued things today. Art influenced the everyday activities of the Ancient Greeks so its very common to hear arts referenced throughout Ancient Greek history. The Ancient Greek culture was greatly influenced by the arts‚ like dance‚ theater‚ music and poetry. One of the most influential arts in Ancient Greek history is dance. It was quoted by Lawler that‚ "no people ever appreciated the dance more

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    Ancient Greek Oracles

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    Fortune tellers can tell exactly how the future will go‚ or can they? The fact is‚ no‚ they cannot tell how the future will go. In ancient Greece there was a sort of fortune teller called an oracle. Ancient Greek plays and stories are filled with oracles that were either ridiculously right‚ or terribly wrong. One of these plays is Oedipus Rex‚ and in this story an oracle gives an outrageous prophecy that comes to pass (Sophocles). The stories show crazy predictions‚ and are far from the more common

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    Ancient Greek Olympics

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    Ancient Greece The Ancient Olympics “And Time‚ in passing onward‚ clearly told the plain story‚ how Herakles divided the spoils that were the gift of war‚ and offered sacrifice‚ and how he ordained the four years’ festival along with the first Olympic Games and with contests victors.” * Pindar Olympian Ode 10.55-59 Even though there were other games within Greece‚ the Olympian Games became the most famous. The man credited with the creation of the games was none other than the hero and

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    Ancient Greek History

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    Games first began in ancient Greece in the early Christian era (Benagh). Although the Games began in Greece as a formal way to pay respects

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    Modern Greek Literature

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    MODERN GREEK LITERATURE Modern Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek language from the 11th century‚ with texts written in a language that is more familiar to the ears of Greeks today than is the language of the early Byzantine literature‚ the compilers of the New Testament‚ or‚ of course‚ the classical authors of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. 1 The emergence of modern Greek literature (11th - 15th century) 1.1 Acritic songs 1.2 Romances 1.3 Tales set in the classical world

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    Ancient Greek Drama

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    <b>ORIGINS OF ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA</b><br>Theater was born in Attica‚ an Ionic region of Greece. It originated from the ceremonial orgies of Dionysos but soon enough its fields of interest spread to various myths along with historic facts. As ancient drama was an institution of Democracy‚ the great tragic poets Aeschylus‚ Sophocles‚ Euripides as well as the comedian Aristophanes elevated public debate and political criticism to a level of aesthetic achievement. Euripides and the ethologist Menandros

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    Ancient Greek Medicine

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    Ancient Greek Medicine While Greek Medicine particularly from the 5th century B.C onwards‚ increasingly used scientific method to develop cures‚ there still however remained people that considered medicine to be a religion. The ancient Greeks (Hellenic) made important discoveries about the human body and health‚ so by the sixth century BC‚ medicinal practices focused largely on a more clinical approach involving observation. Their discoveries were made by firstly studying the human anatomy using

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