ANCIENT GREEKSang

GREEK MUSIC HISTORY

The music of ancient Greece was inseparable from poetry and dancing. The earliest music is virtually unknown, but in the Homeric era a national musical culture existed that was looked upon by later generations as a "golden age.“ one of the earliest founders of Greek classical music.7th cent. B.C.

THE GREEKS WERE FIERCE WARRIORS

One of example Greeks fierce warriors is Peruses, who slay and beheaded Medusa, went around using her head as a weapon.

THE GREEKS WERE A SEAFARING PEOPLE.

The mountains which break up the land seem to push the people into the sea, and indeed they make land travel and land communications so difficult that by comparison sea travel

Greece has always looked toward the sea and lived by it.

GREEK SCULPTURE DOES NOT PORTRAY EMOTION.

Ancient Greeks believed that subduing the emotions is a noble characteristic of all civilized men, while the public display of human emotion is a sign of barbarism.

ROLE OF WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREEK LIFE

Spent most of their time in her household with other women- only leaving the house to perform religious duties

THE INTERACTION OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS WITH NATURE

37 BC, a treatise on farming, hunting dog suited to chase the beasts of the forest, and the other which is procured as a watch dog and is of importance to the shepherd

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE GODS AND HUMANS

The relationship between the gods and humanity in The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey to be able to return home in The Odyssey