2007-10-09 17:01:46 · 10 answers · asked by J 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The craddle of democracy
Art in all its periods (geometric, archaic, classical, hellenistic)
Its mythology (gods such as Zeus or Hades, goddesses such as Aphrodite or Athena, heroes such as Achilles or Herakles)
2007-10-09 17:06:21 · answer #1 · answered by Abbey Road 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
man the monster was the sphinx and the price was Orthos "A Sphinx, a beast of double form, had come to Thebes and was propounding a riddle to anyone who might be able to solve it, and many were being slain by her because of their inability to do so. And although a generous reward was offered to the man who should solve it, that he should marry Jokaste and be king of Thebes, yet no man was able to comprehend what was propounded except Oidipous, who alone solved the riddle. What had been propounded by the Sphinx was this: What is it that is at the same time a biped, a triped, and a quadraped? And while all the rest were perplexed, Oidipous declared that the animal proposed in the riddle was ‘man’, since as an infant he is a quadruped, when grown a biped, and in old age a triped, using, because of his infirmity, a staff. At this answer the Sphinx, in accordance with the oracle which the myth recounts, threw herself down a precipice." - Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.64.4
2016-05-20 03:50:45 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ancient Greece was where Western Civilization began. The rest is history. And drama, and music, and art, and poetry, and war, and empire, and philosophy, and technology, and democracy, and dictatorship, and architecture, and religion, and myth, and ... you get the idea.
2007-10-09 17:08:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Spanikopita
2007-10-13 16:55:31 · answer #4 · answered by Kimberlee Ann 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cradle of democracy;
arts (including sculpture)
philosophy
the beginning of fighting using the phlanx ("V"-shaped movement utilizing horsemen or soldiers)
geometry
2007-10-09 17:15:38 · answer #5 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
the architecture of their buildings. the size of their empire. the 300 spartans
2007-10-09 18:07:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
where to start...let's see...art, stage theater, democracy, military strategy, modern philosophy, architecture, colorful mythology, physics and scientific thought, mathematics, western medical science. you get the idea.
2007-10-09 17:11:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Mythology, Mathematics, politics, architecture, language...
come on!
2007-10-09 17:07:01 · answer #8 · answered by Grg 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
hedonistic behavior! promiscuity, syphilis,gonorrhea,etc...
2007-10-09 17:22:47 · answer #9 · answered by Don Vittorio Corlleone 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the aqueduct?
2007-10-09 17:04:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋