Ancient Greece

The way music shaped the Ancient Greek World. The function of music in Ancient Greek society was bound up in their mythology. Amphion learned music from Hermes, the messenger. Orpheus, the master-musician and skilled lyre player, played so well he could calm wild beasts and persuade the Gods. Music was an integral part of Greek perception in how they even came into existence.

This paragraph is about the geographical position and surrounding area of Ancient Greece. Greece is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is on a peninsula that extends from the Balkans into the Mediterranean Sea. Greece is really rocky and mountainous with many gulfs and bays. Since most of Greece is stony, the Ancient Greeks strived to find food. Luckily about one fifth of Greece is suitable for growing wheat, barley, citrus, and many other foods.

The Greek’s form of government and political ideas in ancient times were widely varied since they were city-states. The Greeks had a lot of different governmental ideas because they were all separate city-states. Aristotle divided Greek’s governments into monarchies, oligarchies, tyrannies and democracies. Most historians still use these same divisions. First Greece’s city-states had monarchies, then tyrannies, and then democracies.

Most Major Historical Events in Ancient Greece played an important part in its development. One of the major historical events in Greece happened in 800-700 B.C. It was the Rise of the Poleis. In 725 B.C, the Spartans turned the Messenians into Helots. In 521 B.C Darius became the King of Persia. In 490 B.C was the battle of Marathon. In 462 B.C Pericles persecutes Simon.

The three most noteworthy people that dominated in Ancient Greece. Ancient Greece was dominated by three very important and noteworthy people. They were Socrates. Plato, and Aristotle. The three of them lived in Athens for most of their lives at around the same time and they all knew each other. Socrates died in 399 B.C. and his student Plato opened a school teaching what Socrates taught him. Aristotle who was younger came to study at Plato’s school and later he opened his own school.

Most of the other Ancient Civilizations had most of the same things that I talked about. Although most of them did have the same things as Ancient Greece such as Clothing, Religion, Food, Art, Music, Architecture, Geography, Government and Politics, Major Historical Events, and Noteworthy People. Some of these things though make Ancient Greece somewhat unique and special.