My Favorite Links for Information on Greece
click here to view the Greek Alphabet
Mathematics requires a large number of symbols to stand for abstract objects, such as numbers, sets, functions, and spaces, so the use of Greek letters was introduced long ago to provide a collection of useful symbols to supplement the usual Roman letters.
To us these symbols may seem quite foreign, and they are difficult to become familiar with. However, at the time they were introduced, most scholars had been taught at least some Latin and Greek during their education, so the letters did not seem nearly so strange to them as they do to us. Since then, each new generation of mathematicians has just gotten used to using them.
click here to read about the Greek Olympics
The first Olympic games were held in Ancient Greece in the city state of Athens. The year was 776 B.C. There was a flame burning in the honor of Zeus, lord of all the gods. The very first Olympic games only held one event. That event was the marathon. We stayed around for awhile to see the next Olympic games and they had several more events. The Olympics expanded to wrestling, boxing, horse racing,long jumping, javelin, and chariot races. Early Olympic victors became national heroes and celebrated in music and poetry. Definitely not like today's sports heroes who try to make as money as they possibly can
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The history of Greece can be traced back to Stone Age hunters. Later came early farmers and the civilizations of the Minoan and Mycenaean kings. This was followed by a period of wars and invasions, known as the Dark Ages. In about 1100 BC, a people called the Dorians invaded from the north and spread down the west coast. In the period from 500-336 BC Greece was divided into small city states, each of which consisted of a city and its surrounding countryside.
You could search for anything and everything you wan't at google. It is probibly the most visited site for student's. You could search about Greece and Greek. About their country, population, people, homes, gods, music, food, etc.
click here to read about ancient Greece
The ancient Greeks were a deeply religious people. They worshipped many gods whom they believed appeared in human form and yet were endowed with superhuman strength and ageless beauty. The Iliad and the Odyssey, our earliest surviving examples of Greek literature, record men's interactions with various gods and goddesses whose characters and appearances underwent little change in the centuries that followed. The Greeks attributed these epic narratives to Homer, a poet living at the end of the 8th century BC Each Greek city was normally under the protection of one or more individual deities who were worshipped with special emphasis, as, for example, Athens and the goddess Athena. While many sanctuaries honored more than a single god, usually one deity such as Zeus at Olympia or a closely linked pair of deities like Demeter and her daughter Persephone at Eleusis dominated the cult place. Elsewhere in the arts, various painted scenes on vases, and stone, terracotta and bronze sculptures portray the major gods and goddesses. The deities are depicted either by themselves or in traditional mythological situations in which they interact with humans and a broad range of minor deities, demi-gods and legendary characters.
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