Greek Influences on Present Day America
United States of America is known to be the melting pot of the world, because of the different ethnicities, cultures, languages, religions, etc. From the different types of people that came to this country, where did their culture come from? Almost everything in America can be related back to Greek/Roman times. One of the first few Empires every known to man, Greece had used what they knew as influences, and their ideas were almost all original.
The definition of in the New Oxford American Dictionary states “present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.” Which proves that ancient Greek/Roman Empire was original with their ideas. Everything after that time was just their idea adapting with modern time for example, the wheel. People stopped making the wheel out of stone because it was to heavy and started making them with wood. After that people started to make then with rubber because the wood break to easy, then they put a grooves in the wheel so it would grip to the road. Everything evolves and adapts to the conditions it is faced with.
Think about the past five movies you have watched and if one of those five movies had conflicts leading up to a climax and resolution it was influenced by Ancient Greek plays. Most people do not realize that modern day movies literature format all resign from ancient Greeks dramas and epics. After more and more studies of Greek classics such as “Odyssey” and “Iliad” researchers realized that the formats are very similar to novels, poems, and books read today. The way these plays were preformed where in huge stadium like theatres. Which is very similar architecture to the theatres where bands and plays are performed today.
Ancient Greek architecture plays a big role in modern day architecture. The creation of the arch was made in ancient greek Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are the first epic poems in recorded history. These poems became popular throughout Mediterranean societies and are said to have caused the Romans
The definition of in the New Oxford American Dictionary states “present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.” Which proves that ancient Greek/Roman Empire was original with their ideas. Everything after that time was just their idea adapting with modern time for example, the wheel. People stopped making the wheel out of stone because it was to heavy and started making them with wood. After that people started to make then with rubber because the wood break to easy, then they put a grooves in the wheel so it would grip to the road. Everything evolves and adapts to the conditions it is faced with.
Think about the past five movies you have watched and if one of those five movies had conflicts leading up to a climax and resolution it was influenced by Ancient Greek plays. Most people do not realize that modern day movies literature format all resign from ancient Greeks dramas and epics. After more and more studies of Greek classics such as “Odyssey” and “Iliad” researchers realized that the formats are very similar to novels, poems, and books read today. The way these plays were preformed where in huge stadium like theatres. Which is very similar architecture to the theatres where bands and plays are performed today.
Ancient Greek architecture plays a big role in modern day architecture. The creation of the arch was made in ancient greek Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are the first epic poems in recorded history. These poems became popular throughout Mediterranean societies and are said to have caused the Romans