Can someone please explain this " The Glory that was Greece"?

Question

I'm doing a homework in history so please somebody help me with this....can anyone please explain to me the meaning of this "The Glory that was Greece"

Answer 1

"Classical antiquity" typically refers to an idealized vision of later people, of what was, in Edgar Allan Poe's words, "the glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was Rome!"
Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history lasting for close to a millennium, until the rise of Christianity. It is considered by most historians to be the foundational culture of Western civilization. Greek culture was a powerful influence in the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of Europe.

The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, art and architecture of the modern world, fueling the Renaissance in Western Europe and again resurgent during various neo-Classical revivals in 18th and 19th century Europe and The Americas.

"Ancient Greece" is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the geographical peninsula of modern Greece, but also to areas of Hellenic culture that were settled in ancient times by Greeks: Cyprus and the Aegean islands, the Aegean coast of Anatolia (then known as Ionia), Sicily and southern Italy (known as Magna Graecia), and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of Colchis, Illyria, Thrace, Egypt, Cyrenaica, southern Gaul, east and northeast of the Iberian peninsula, Iberia and Taurica.

The Hellenistic period of Greek history was the period between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation of the Greek peninsula and islands by Rome in 146 BC. Although the establishment of Roman rule did not break the continuity of Hellenistic society and culture, which remained essentially unchanged until the advent of Christianity, it did mark the end of Greek political independence.


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Answer 2

Glory Of Greece

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Answer 4

It's a poetic phrase. It means "the glory that Greece used to have" or better "all the wonderful things Greece used to create". It assumes Greece has lost its past glory and there's nothing fascinating about the Greece of today. If you ask me, it's a tad derogatory...

Answer 5

Greece was one of the cradles of civilisation. In literature, there is an important place for Greece and the people of the country. Being a country of the Mediterranean with very favourable climatic conditions, its crops, fruits, nuts very rich in nutritional values, and healthy mind and body it has developed into a very rich nation well known for its warriors, kings, scholars, buildings, legal system, battles, Gods, angels and everything. The stories are very nice and lovely creations. It had trade links with other far eastern countries. It was flourishing in wealth and culture and was considered as a model of many branches of the sciences and arts. So, it is called as Glory.

Answer 6

The glory that was Greece is probably exemplified in their architecture, more specifically their statues and columns. Also Greece was the home of great thinkers like Plato and Aristotle.

Answer 7

If you want the low down on Greece then look no further than Mathematics. The Babylonians' and Egyptians' mathematical background goes further back than the Greeks, but it was the Greeks that put the backbone into Mathematics with their rigorous proofs.

For me the main Greek Mathematicians were Eudoxus, Euclid and Archimedes.

Answer 8

If you were doing a research paper I would refer you to Jambilicus' notes; I would show you that the Greeks who got credit for seeding our civilazation actually attended courtyard lectures in Egypt. I would show you that Greece was initially intolerant to the "new" thinking that Socrates and others brought back from Egypt. Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for poisioning Athenian minds, and others had to flee to Asia Minor until the season of tolerance dawned in Greece. However, since you are doing homework, go to the Library and give the teachers what they ask for. Your teachers are probably asking for the glory years--the elevation of Greek thought and architecture--the rise of Greek civilization.

Answer 9

Greece was generally considered the seed civilization of the Western world. Its sciences, philosophies, technologies and government influenced, in some way, virtually every aspect of modern Western society.

Answer 10

The architecture, knowledge, wisdom, medicine, science etc. was overtaken by Rome. Rome did adopt a great deal of Greek culture and were prepared to admit that the Greeks were masters in may fields.