According to cheeroutdoor, the Romance in Greece is generally set between 1830 and 1880 and developed in the wake of the French, especially in Phanariot environment. The themes used are quite common to all the poets of the first and second generation: love, homeland, freedom, nature. The phanariotes of the first generation, heirs and representatives… Read More »
Delphi had been around since the 8th century BC. Most important cult place of Apollo, “navel of the world” and contact point for advice seekers from all over the ancient world. Pythia, as the Oracle of Delphi, proclaimed the answers to the questioners. The holy district was spread over four terraces and was peppered with… Read More »
From 1669 to 1774 there is the so-called century of the phanariotes. In this period, according to commit4fitness, Greek culture is still in a situation of stagnation, even if the first signs of renewal are evident, for example, through the multiplication of schools. Literary activity develops mostly in Greek communities abroad (Venice, Trieste, Rome) and… Read More »
Near the ancient city of Phigaleia around 430 BC. The Temple of Apollo, built in BC, is one of the most beautiful and important temples of classical antiquity. A mixture of three types of columns in Doric, Ionic and Corinthian styles is striking. The Corinthian column style was used here for the first time. Temple… Read More »
CULTURE: LITERATURE. THE LITERARY INFLUENCES OF THE WEST In the sec. XIII Greece opens up to literary influences from the West, incorporating motifs, metric forms and themes especially from France and Italy. Representative of this period (1204-1453) are the Chronicle of Morea, of purely historical and linguistic interest, which narrates the occupation of the Peloponnese… Read More »
The popular traditions differ according to the areas (Macedonia, Greece, Ionian islands, Aegean islands, Crete, Peloponnese) and still have a certain vitality, although they tend to regress rapidly in the context of the disintegration of agricultural society due to urbanism and ’emigration. The wedding parties, which involved the whole community and lasted at least three… Read More »
Long considered a “diabolical prodigy” and entrusted to foreign technicians and merchants, the cinema was established in Greece only around 1930 thanks to D. Gaziadis (Prometheus chained, 1927; Astero the shepherdess, 1932) and O. Laskos (Dafni and Cloe, 1931). With the Metaxàs dictatorship (1936) any further development was precluded while in full war and occupation,… Read More »
Greek art, in the sense of classical archeology term for the art of the Greeks from the 11th to the 1st century BC. Chr. After the fall of the Mycenaean culture (around 1200), the simplest forms of Mycenaean vessel shapes were erased (sub-Mycenaean ceramics), around 1050 a stylistic renewal began: the shapes were more articulated,… Read More »
Modern Greek language, term for two forms of language in Greece and Cyprus: the Dimotiki (“popular language”), which represents an organic development of the Greek language over the millennia, and the purist language Katharevusa, the artificial form of a learned, archaic Greek. According to ehealthfacts, Greek language dualism began in the time of Alexander the… Read More »
Painting As with Lysippus the Hellenistic sculpture, so with Apelles the Hellenistic painting started. However, almost all the originals (panel and wall paintings) have been lost, and painted steles, vases (Centuripe, Sicily) and glass vessels (finds from Bescham) are also rare. The precious mosaic pictures of Dioscorides of Samos with scenes of comedies and musicians… Read More »