Ancient greece - the greeks, their gods and their architecture

4 important questions on Ancient greece - the greeks, their gods and their architecture

Can you speek of Ancient Greece as a country?
(yes and no)

  • yes because, they speak the same language, read the same books, and have the same religion, education, philosophy and art
  • no because, Greece existed out of a lot of small city-states (poleis) separated by sea and mountains that hat their own government

Had each polis their own their own guardian, god or goodness

yes

Name four characteristics for the Greek religion

  • Greek gods were very much like people (argued with each other an where jealous)
  • the Greeks also had demi-gods
  • Greek religion was al about enjoying life on earth
  • Greeks believed that the gods spoke directly to them
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Name examples of influences of the religion

  • every people's assembly began whit prayers and sacrifices
  • the Olympic Games ere held in honour of Zeus, the king of the gods. The games took place amid a period of sacred peace, when the priests forbade any fighting between the poleis
  • the Greeks found it very important to buty ther dead in the right way otherwise the deceased person would be denied entry to the underworld and condemned to roam world for ever as spirit.

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