How Does Greek Culture Affect The Daily Lives Of Grecin People

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The decision to write this essay was because this topic was very interesting in ways such as their Gods, beliefs, and their way of life and how the women and men lived differently. Greek culture has many folktales and myths behind every character and way that the Greek people lived but never the real stories behind their lives and who Greek people were, so here is information gained to help understand more about how this culture existed and lived to answer, What Greek culture and religion is and how the culture affects the daily lives of Grecin people.
The Geek culture began way back in roman times where boys and girls were divided in schools, as well as in some parts of rome the girls and boy were even taught how to battle in war as their …show more content…

These Grecian people believed in fate and prophecy, people went to oracles to find out about their future and what they can do to prevent those bad things from happening in their lives in addition, these answers on how to resolve their problems were given in riddles and most times these riddles were misleading to the people, as Mark Cartwright explains in “ Greek Mythology”. In many Greek cities the Grecian people praised their gods and goddess with monuments enduring them so their stories can be told to those who ever question the meaning and how they represented the Greek culture, along with many myths and folktales on how these great gods lived to bring the Greek religion forward and bring meaning (Mark …show more content…

Though Greek religion and Greek mythology may seem similar it is a concern with traditional tales even though both the belief and mythology are interlinked, John Thornhill states in “ Greek Religion”. For people who are religiously minded the Greek culture had no word for itself the only terms that were used to present this religion were “eusebeia” which meant piety and “threskeia” in terms of a cult (John Thornhill). Having many beliefs in addition to this religion, the core requirements for Greeks were for them to believe that gods existed and to perform rituals and sacrifices through which gods received their dues. Through this Greeks believed their gods mainly in roughly modern sense of the term and that they prayed in a time of crisis not merely to the relevant deity but to any deity and whose aid they had established a claim by