Greek Culture Vs American Culture

In the Greek culture the leading philosophers were Thales, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Democritus and Plato. It was Plato that used Socrates question and answer method of solving problems in many famous dialogues. Aristotle, one of Plato’s pupils established many rules of deductive reasoning, but also worked with observation in his studies of human behavior. There were many philosophers in the Hellenistic period such as Epicurus the philosopher of moderation. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, that even in todays society new medical graduates recite the Hippocratic oath. Euclid, evolved the system of geometry, which is very much in use in our society today. Eratosthenes calculated the earths circumference and Hipparchus founded scientific

They would capture and enslave young woman and boys, then they would sell them to markets across Europe and the Middle East. Very similar in to the Greek culture in Classical Athens were 40-80% of the population was made up of slaves. Modern reconstruction of the Norse culture has shown influence in the late 20th and the early 21st century in the areas of comics, role-playing games, computer games and music. Very similar to the Greek and American culture. After reading about the Greek and Norse cultures, there are many similar aspects to them that have helped form out American culture today. Its like anything, cultures evolve and change as time goes by. It is very interesting to me about how modern-day studies started so long ago, such as history, study of the planets, the Hippocratic oath. There are many things that we just take for granted and don’t really know where they originated from. Some of the many differences of the Norse and Greek cultures are that the gods of the Norse are more human like. Whereas the Greek gods have very little interaction with humans. The Norse gods have human feelings, they get hungry, they hurt and they die. According to the Norse culture they had to rely on humans to get around the nine worlds, Example of this was of Thor leaving his chariot and needing help.Norse mythology has an ending unlike Greek mythology in which it has no ending. There are many referenced to Ragnarok in Norse culture, this is the final battle. In Greek mythology there is a grand battle between Zeus and his brothers, where they overthrow their father. But there is no ending to Greek mythology. If the battle of Zeus and his bothers against their father did not happen, then they would have no