greek cultrural contributions
Aubrianna Rittenhouse
architecture
Greek architecture is known for its columns. There are three types of columns: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. Other types of Greek art include pottery, sculptures and paintings. Every city-state had a temple that was dedicated to a specific god. They went there to worship and make sacrifices. Some leaders like Pericles and Alexander the Great spread the Greek architecture.
We wee Greek influence in architecture today in important buildings. The White House, Capitol Building, Supreme Court and the Lincoln Memorial all have columns that show Greek influence.
goverment
Greek government run by its citizen and there goverment is a Direct Democracy. You have to be a white male that is over 18 and have to be a citizen to vote.Every year a new member for the council is chosen. they hold a lottery to make the change to the new counncil.
We still do president trials a trial for a president is up to 4 years.
mythology
Greece myth are sacred tales that explain the world and mans experience.Some of the heroes of ancient Greece are Hercules,Odysseeus and Perseus. Greece believe that once that the moment they die there spirit left the body as a little puff or wind. The people who wrote the myths are Aesop and Telemachus and Homer.
We still today read books on myth like Percey jackon.
philosophy
Philosophers in ancient Greece were Socrates and Plotinus .some of the questions that philosophers have tried to answer are" how are we", "how can we be happy".Socrates was execute, because the jury did not agree the way how it was being touring cloins things.
We still using the hippociates oath today.
sports
In Greece sports men only were only allowed to play in. The sport they play are running, racing,boxing and etc...They played sport to honor gods. they did horse racing in the Greece sports and if you win the games you will get honored and will get free meals.
We today still use horse racing.