Did Ancient Greece steal from Ancient Egypt?

Answer 1

I believe that it was influenced.It is sometimes visible in the arts.The Mycenaean Greeks of the 2ND millennium b.C. did sail to Egypt and exchanged goods. Chronologically Egypt comes first,then Greece,then Rome.

Answer 2

Steal items? Probably. Steal cultural icons and values? Yes, to some extent.

Many ancient cultures that came into contact with one another ended up borrowing cultural values ... as a way of survival and to put meaning to all the "unanswerable questions" about things they couldn't control, like weather, lack of food, etc.

There are cultural similarities between Greece and Egypt - pagan morals (many gods), the social heirarchy, the importance of temples and buildings. You can draw a similiarity between many aspects of the two cultures.

A better and more well-known example of "culture stealing" happened between Greece and Rome.

Rome's empire was gaining power just as Greece's was losing, and a war between the two powers ensued. Romans, before the war, had a very symbolic view of gods and deities with no personification of the powers that be, but eventually took over the Greek's whole religious system as the cultures combined (due to the war) and renamed the deities to fit their culture.

For example, the Greek god Zeus (he was the God of gods, per say) became Jupiter. Poseidon, ruler of the sea, became Neptune in Roman culture.

Answer 3

Yes! Ancient Greece stole Ancient Egypt's cup cake recipe.
ooooooooooh! NASTY

Answer 4

Those are things which can't be stolen. They're incorporated into existing beliefs. And yes, that did happen. Just as Egypt used many beliefs that were established in Sumer. All of these religious ideas have been moved around, changed to fit and pumped up for other cultures.

Answer 5

All conquerors usurped the Gods of the conquered. So yea, Greece Greek-a-fied everything in Egypt they thought was cool.

Answer 6

Greece stole from Egypt, Rome stole from Greece, Christianity stole from Rome, Egypt, .....

Answer 7

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, many of their dieties were changed around to fit the Greek patheon.

Answer 8

When they took over Egypt, they turned around all the religious beliefs and made them into something Greek. So, yeah I guess they did.

Answer 9

If you are interested in how religions/cultures are related, you should read "The Golden Bough" by James Frazier. It talks about all the similarities between religions, and it's really interesting!

Answer 10

you need to also look into the Babylonian and Sumerian civilizations from which the different 3 sprang. as far as contributions from those civilization you need to do the study your self. the internet should be fairly good for any such challenge. i am going to easily element out one contribution. Writing, the earliest examples being from Sumer.