The Ancient Greeks were descended from theMycenaeans, who were also the first writers and speakers of ‘Ancient Greek’. A famous legend tells how, in 1180 B.C., the mighty Mycenaeans conquered the city of Troy – by hiding inside a giant wooden horse!

27/01/2022 · Zeus was the leader of all Greek gods. This explanation will focus on the twelve major ancient Greek gods, called by the Greeks the Olympian gods, which came to be recognized as the most important deities, and were thence worshipped by the Romans prior to Christian conversion. Six of the gods were the offspring of the titan siblings, Cronus and Rhea, but only …

13/11/2013 · Greece is a country in southeastern Europe, known in Greek as Hellas or Ellada, and consisting of a mainland and an archipelago of islands. Ancient Greece is the birthplace of Western philosophy ( Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle ), literature ( Homer and Hesiod ), mathematics ( Pythagoras and Euclid ), history ( Herodotus ), drama ( Sophocles, ...

The Greeks, led by Antichus Epiphinus, conquered the land of Israel and forced the Jews to leave their national heritage and the Torah and begin following the Greek culture. Because of the Jews hatred for all things Hellenistic, including the culture and language, Judas Maccabee lead the revolt against Antichus Epiphinus destroying the Greeks and slaughtering those Jews that had …

30/08/2021 · The Greek word philosophia literally means the love for knowledge and wisdom. A philosopher is someone who reflects and forms theories related to fields like logic, ethics, ideologies and human nature.. Here are 12 Ancient Greek philosophers who helped shape the main virtues and ethics in Ancient Greece. Many of their philosophical ideas have remained …

09/02/2020 · If someone has lived in Greece their whole life, they speak the Greek language as their native tongue, they identify themself as “Greek,” they feel a strong sense of kinship with other Greeks, and they are a part of Greek culture, then, frankly, who (apart from the racists and Neo-Nazis out there) really gives a care in the world whether their distant ancestors came to Greece …

02/12/2017 · The Middle Class/Metics: The people who were not born in Athens but came in Athens and settled there for earning their livelihood and spent their entire life were eligible to be a part of the Middle Class means become a Metics and this was also the next class in Ancient Greece Hierarchy. They were free men means they were not slaves but they possessed very …

Modern greece has virtually no connection with the (Hellenes)of the ancient world.Any serious scholar will tell you this is true.Modern greece was founded in 1824,and the population largely consisted of transplanted albanin and slavs as well as christian refugees from the old Ottoman emmpire.Conidering that the Athenian city state was in its prime roughly 2300 years ago,and …