Essays on Ancient Greece

One of the most debated topics among scholars is why theater was first created in ancient Greece, not any other civilization at that time. The cultural and economic advancement of Greek city-states, their constant trading with other civilizations like Egypt, China, India and Persia, its...

Everything that we know about women in antiquity is almost all derived from masculine thought. Much of classical literature has models of patriotism, freedom and right government, and such literature was commonly studied in the early 19th century in Europe and early America. Almost all...

History is defined as the study of past events. In the paper, I would like to analyse the influence that Ancient Greek civilisation – being its culture as well as the ways of its society and life – has had on Western civilisation. The influence...

Religion is feelings, beliefs and, emotions that define the relationships between people and god. Belief in God was created in almost the same way in all civilizations. Natural phenomena had played a major role in the formation of people’s religious beliefs. When people were faced...

Oral tradition or culture can be described as cultural materials, concepts or ideas that transmitted without the help of written records. Some of the oral forms of culture include poetry, genealogies, folktales, songs, rhetoric, narrative poetry, sayings, and jokes. According to Worthington (2002), Greek oratory...

There are many different historical events that have shaped Greece into what it is today, but the most dominant one would be is the start of democracy. Greece has a long history of struggling with the Government. Still to this day they have problems with...

Ancient Greeks were one of the civilizations that were distinguished because of rich cultural heritage which is still actual nowadays. Literature and theatre of Ancient Greece deserve special attention due to the fact that Greeks were the first ones on the continent who introduced both...