Essays on Greek

During the NRP broadcast ‘Why the Greeks Matter’, Cahill, Straus and the listeners mentioned a lot of important points concerning the Greeks. How they lived their everyday life, what influenced their customs and what democracy meant to them are just a few that were mentioned. One of the first compelling points Cahill and Straus describe…

Little is known about the life of the Greek mathematician Diophantus. However, his work led to one of the greatest mathematical challenges of all time, Fermat’s last theorem. He was born in Alexandria somewhere between 200 and 214 BC. Alexandria was the center of Greek culture and knowledge and Diophantus belonged to the ‘Silver Age’…

Comparison of the Sumerian Gods and the Greek Pantheon The Sumerian civilization existed an estimated three thousand years prior to the Greeks (Powell p. 60). Although very little is actually known about the Sumerian culture, archaeologists have unearthed ancient artifacts and clay tablets containing cuneiform writing that have given historians bits and pieces of the…

This just in, Greece: there is a New Greek God in town and he is here to stay and his name is Zeus! Zeus is very well known all over the world but where did he come from, who is he, and what does he do? We’ll i tell you. The Greeks believed in the…

Abstract Theater, once a form of entertainment, is also a profitable industry today. Innovations such as special effects made theater performances more realistic and appealing to audiences. Furthermore, it widened the genres within the scope of the theater. Although performances became costlier to produce, audiences were so impressed that they willing to pay to be…

The Greek philosopher Plato was among the most important and creative thinkers of the ancient world. His work set forth most of the important problems and concepts of Western philosophy, psychology, logic, and politics, and his influence has remained profound from ancient to modern times. Plato was born in Athens in 428 BC. Both his…