Greek culture
The Greek culture was the culture of ancient Greece . Its distribution areas were the Greek peninsula and the islands of the Aegean Sea as well as the west coast of Asia Minor ( Ionia ) and southern Italy ( Magna Graecia ) and, in later, Hellenistic times, the Greek areas of influence as a result of the campaigns of Alexander the Great : Ptolemaic Egypt with the capital Alexandria , which replaced Athens as a cultural center, Seleucid Syria with the capital Antioch , to the Graeco-Bactrian Empire and even the Graeco-Indian Empire .
A single article can hardly take into account the multiple dimensions of Greek culture. That is why several main articles shed light on the issues that have had a lasting impact on the Western worldview:
- Greek mythology , with the stories of great heroes
- Greek literature , with a centuries-old reception in Central Europe
- Greek art starting with the Mycenaean culture
- Greek music , versatile and very different from region to region
- Ancient Greek theater spanning nearly a thousand years.
Many sporting competitions and scientific findings of today go back directly to ancient Greece:
- Ancient Olympic Games , held from 776 BC. BC to AD 393
- Astronomy in ancient Greece , as celestial science and the beginning of natural science
- Greek natural science , with first mathematical calculations.
The basis for these cultural achievements is structured and described:
- Greek script , the first alphabetical script in the strict sense
- Greek language , with a writing tradition spanning 3400 years
- Greek religion , with the Orthodox Church and the monasteries
- Natural philosophy , in our culture the starting point for ancient philosophy
- Greek philosophy with Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
The philosophy could very well be placed at the beginning of all main articles, because the chosen order of the dimensions is in no way judgmental.