Classical Greek Art, Drama, and Government Influence on Mode
Four thousand years ago the humanities were introduced by the Ancient Greeks. The men began to record their feelings and ideas in the form of architecture, sculpture, plays, and paintings which make up the humanities. These numerous artists, writers, and politicians set the foundation for the whole world to build on. Our current government, buildings, literature, and sculpture all have their roots in the Classical Greeks. Aside from the drama and art, even the first governments that developed in Classical Greek are still in power today only with modifications brought about by the elapsed time periods. Greek drama which signifies "things done" arose out of festivals that were held in the early spring to honor Dionysus, god of wine. These dramas started out as songs and dance but retold religious stories. They were improved as time went on and developed two specific types still popular today which were comedy and tragedy. Thespis, a Greek dramatist, introduced tragedy to the world, and the first actor which were known as thespians or hupokrites. From the early actors known as hupokrites was where the version of the word we know as hypocrites a person who plays a false role began. Tragedies are stories that arouse the feelin
architecture. The early Greeks founded the types of columns that have been used over and over again through out the centuries all over the world. These different types were Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian. The influence of Classical Greek Architecture all over our country was best put by Van Loon in The Arts: g of sadness, awe, fear, or pity, and the character brings about a downfall by a tragic flaw. Although introduced by Thespis, later writers such as Aeschylus, Socrates and Menedor also improved the Greek Tragedy by their plays and input. Menedor whom constructed many excellent plots, also gave us some famous sayings still used today such as "whom the gods love die young" which has been translated into our society as being "the good die young." The Greek tragedy influenced writers from then on and improved only with time, but also the early tragedies laid the foundations for many of the world's classic Literature pieces. Some of these include Shakespeare's tragedies such as Hamlet, Macbeth, or Romeo and Juliet although they are less modern, what would the world be without Shakespeare? Also a classic of our day and age is A Street Car Named Desire; although the actual storyline does not include a hint of Classical Greece the set up for the stories and the genre they fit into was created by the Classical Greek writers. Comedy the other form of Drama was introduced
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