Greek culture
Parthenon's home civilization
Greek culture encompasses the traditions, values, arts, and social practices originating in Greece and spread throughout the Mediterranean by ancient civilization.
It includes philosophy, democracy, theater, mythology, architecture, and the Olympic games—foundations that shaped Western civilization.
Modern Greek culture retains distinctive elements: Orthodox Christianity, close family ties, hospitality customs, folk music and dance, and Mediterranean cuisine.
Greek culture prizes lively debate and communal dining.
- ancient GreeceClassical Mediterranean civilization
- SocratesAncient Athenian questioning philosopher
- GreeceBalkan peninsula nation
- ZeusGreek sky god
- ParthenonAncient Greek hilltop temple
Homer · symposiums · wine and cheese · Stoicism · Plato · agora · Epicureanism · the good life · democracy · Apollo · Aristotle · mythology · amphitheater · Hera · lyric poetry · circle dance · Dionysus · sculptures
- Roman GreeceCorinth, Roman conquest, Roman rule, Roman governors, proconsuls
- culturesMediterranean cultures, subculture, multicultural, counterculture, underground
- European heritageEuropean architecture, wine, European art, cheese, European cuisine
- ancient GreeceAthens, Sparta, Zeus, Parthenon, Acropolis
- Modern GreeceConstantine I, bouzouki, taverna, ouzo, name days
- ancient AlexandriaLighthouse of Alexandria, Serapeum, Ptolemy, Cleopatra, Alexander the Great
Greek cultureRoman culture
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Latin culture · Roman civilization · Egyptian culture · Persian culture
Greek cultureChinese culture
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