any thoughts on ancient greece in our woirld today!?

Question

i need two examples of ancient greece in our world today.
it has to realate directly.
it has to acctually have somethign like- greek style buildings,
or actually look like ancient greece inspired it.
any thoughts or ideas?!

remember.. directly relate.

Answer 1

1. Democracy - Was invented by ancient Greeks and at least European political systems are based on the principles that were established by ancient Greece.

2. Tragedy in theater - several modern theatrical theories have are based on ancient tragedy principles

3. Music - Several types of music are based on the notes found (on paper) at the archeological sites. (Book Annemarie Jeannette Neubecker, ''Altgriechische Musik, eine Einfuhrung", Darmstadt , 1977

Answer 2

You just gave an example. Today we still have Greek buildings. Also, the Greek language exists (invented back in Ancient Greece).

Take a look at Greece... Greece wouldn't be the same without Ancient Greece. There are plenty of things in Ancient Greece that you can find today in Greece and all over the world (food, jewelry, Greek Language, culture, music, dances, traditions, etc).

Answer 3

Greek architecture-Greek style columns
ionic=looks like a T with a swirl on either side at the top
doric
corinthian=looks like flowers at the top
Greek words are used in most scientific and medical terms
examples include
triskedekaphobia-tris=three; ke=kai=and decca=ten; phobia=fear
fear of the number thirteen
podiatrist-podi=foot; iatrist=iatros(ya-tros)=doctor
panoramic-pan=everything; orama=view
also, Greeks invented philosophy, astrology, and democracy.

Answer 4

historical greek's perfect minds set the bases of right this moment's philosophy. not basically that, the greeks have been nicely commonplace for his or her learn of astronomy and carry the roots for lots of the words right this moment. (occasion, in geometry the consumer-friendly shapes are named after the greek selection equipment:triangle (trio) quadrilateral (questherra) pentagon (pendi) hexagon (hexi) heptagon (heptaya) octagon (octo) nonagon (eniea) decagon (deca) dodecogon (dodeca) ectect...) (exuse my terrible spelling).there are a number of different issues, you will discover that in case you go searching (somtimes actually) you will see issues that relate to greeks and historical greek impact. they are additionally nicely commonplace for his or her architecheral impact in certainty some say the greeks invented each thing =)