Culture
Language/Literature
Language/Literature
- Alphabet comes from the greek letter alpha and beta
- Many english words have greek roots
- Did historic writing
- Grammar punctuation and paragraphing all began in ancient Greece
- Modern historians follow in the footsteps of Greek writers such as Herodotus and Thucydides
- Herodotus is known as the father of history
- A fable is a short story with a moral or a lesson to teach
- Fables gave early greeks a common culture, a way of behaving
- A legend is a story about an event in the past usually having a heroic action
- To qualify as a legend, the story cannot be proven although it might be true
- Had many myths and fables
- Democracy ruled by people in Athens
- Athens proud that citizens could control their own destiny
- Athens- all citizens debated in every issue= direct democracy
- We have representative democracy, we vote for people to take part in our government and represent the U.S.A.
- Jury- People who sit court and debate started in Athens.
- Oligarchs- group of wealthy men which ruled in Ancient Greece