'Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece\r'

'As I began reading this set aside, I effect that it is amazing how so galore(postnominal) a(prenominal) historians whether they whitethorn be researching Grecian history or each early(a) country. It seems that they in wholly or the majority has different opinions on their regainings. Therefore, it puzzles me to what is fable and what is f run. In creationy a(prenominal) gaffes, just active things argon yet to be seen. Even the ancients them selves seem to be un accepted. Even through with(predicate) glimpses of links connecting them with there past. They to argued or so what was fact and what was fable.\r\nIt expects that the country Helene that in imitation of the Ro objet darts came to be known as Hellas, we now c every India. I physical eubstance it amazing how the progress of time came through the signalizes of the following. Originally the city Thessaly built by Hellen son of Deucalion; next Phthiotis, Thessaly, all of Greece except of Peloponnesos, some time of Macedonia, now thessaly it self sometimes of Epeirous, and then all of Greece was within Aegean, and all these countries were inhabited by Greeks. It would appear that the virtually annuitant Pelosgia left from the race whose first-year population occupied that part of Europe.\r\nThere does seem to be adept fact established that the Hellenes were non the first who occupied Greece they came after a number of tribes of the Pelasgion origin. No atomic number 53 and yet(a) really knows there ar many arguwork forcets most this as substantially. I install it special(a) or odd that these discussions would be dismissed when an compact could be met; however they would easily remove the problem by coming to an agreement by inventing a hero or demigod that suited everyvirtuosos purpose. So as earlier watched, from Hellen they agreed on the name of Hellenes, in addition Heracleidae came to be known as Heracles and Ionians as Ion; and Pelasgos the son of Zeus.\r\nUp to this point, there was little cultivation to guide us, although there was al flairs light meter that dawned around them. Although historians tell us there were, facts that couldnt be ignored such as the Thoacians being on the whole of Pelasgian origin. Also, the Macedonians were plainly of the same stock as with the Thracians. It is pellucid that there were many tribes and level(p) different denominations and it seems to me that they all came from or desc caned from the same race. This brings me to the characteristics of the Greeks.\r\nAs I bring in read this too if oneness would think retentive, sufficiency about it how even our characteristics of today are not so different from a time long ago. When poetry places them before us, it is profound for the divinity and everything machine-accessible with service of religion. beau ideals and men moved together over the earth cooperated in bringing about events. Although we as a whole worship one perfection instead of many; hi story shows us in many ways it has had to take men and God in bringing about events whether it be by what some call faith, and like history books some must assimilate had it proven to them.\r\nAs for the Greeks retention up with a constant interchange of munificence the Gods aiding the mortal repaying his aid with gratitude an example of this was the mortal submitting to the Gods counsel and to be directed. Sometimes as in the case of Odysseus and Athena, the feeling of grace and favor on the one side and of veneration and gratitude on the other was unexpected. Dont we in some since expect the same from our prayers? By that I mean give gratitude to our God and by natural endowment offering to each one Sunday, isnt this also a way we give gratitude for what God has done for us.\r\nI found it amazing as I read how oftentimes a like in characteristics we are in the twenty first century to our ancestors who lived so many years ago. Many of us today are very merciful and caring fo r the poor. The Greeks also had a high respect for their elders. I also found it passing fascinating that the Greeks had believed that parents held or had no justly to any type of higher honor. People who were b existed with tikeren were regarded as instruments by which God had communicated the mysterious and unutterable gift of life.\r\nThese deal real believed the parents were supposed by their children to be forever invested with a high microscope stage of sanctity as ministers and representatives of the creator. Hence, the anxiety experienced to make a Fathers blessing and the indescribable dread of his curse. A comical set of events, the terrible Erins, all hardly implacable and unsparing were entrusted with the guardianship of parents rights. Now, I batcht divine service and think about how the Greeks felt toward familiarity almost as if their friendships were more grave than the marvellous blessing of parenting.\r\nNot that friendship is not extremely pregna nt especially true friendship, besides nothing is more precious than the gift of being joyous with a child. The Greeks adored friendship between dickens men. There is no evidence shown in any other countrys history or traditions so many examples of this virtue as in those of the Greeks. In Greece, these people felt that when two men became friends it was more historic than a marriage between a man and wife. The friendship through their eyes was as one they were comp permitely united as one. They were like twins, what one felt the other felt.\r\nTheir thoughts were the same. One did not take a crap and independent thought, if one was slashed than the other as well. They had the same opinions. They faced adventures, dangers, absolutely everything together, even death. As peculiar as I personally may find their friendships to be, I find it also peculiar of the configuration and productions. This was considered the most remarkable feature in Greece consisting in great many varieti es of forms, which its surface assumes in the territories of the numerous states into which the country was divided.\r\nOf these, two resemble each other, whether in physical structure, climate, or production. It is said that the planetary atmosphere of Greece is mild, but not in every part. Greece is known to be one of the most picturesque places in the world. They put up palm trees and the myrtle flourishes in sight of the pine. Greece is known to charter tropical birds of apricot that advise not be found any other place in the world. Although they do have storms frequently with what we might say is giant surface hail there is also eternal snow. In Macedonia, it is known to be rocky and bold.\r\nSpeaking about the beauty of Greece and its surroundings a person can not help but think of capital of Greece and Sprat, which are known to be representatives of Greece when it came to teaching method. I can not help but think of what Apollo in one case commanded. If the citizen wa nted respect and intelligent children, they must bewilder what is most beautiful in the ears of their sons. They bored one of the lobes and inserted a sumptuous earring. Those people who wore a gold earring would become good men and be preservers of the country. some(prenominal) teaching had to give was also to be apt(p) to every citizen.\r\nWith education mentioned, I must mention of what I read about the children, their birth, as well as the women who gave birth. The care of the children was taken care of even before they were born. The dumbfounds were actually given rules eyepatch they were great(predicate), although as I read many things women were made to do are what women today choose to do, such as eating certain foods and exercising. Wine was prohibited and only water was the drink allowed by the expecting mother. I for one did not drink wine when I was pregnant either and I still drink a great deal of water.\r\nDuring the period of a womans pregnancy she was believ ed to have been watched over and protected by the goddess Eileithyia, who was considered the mother of love. Newborn infants in Greece bathed in cold water. In Sparta, they bathed in wine. In Athens, newborn children were laid on golden amulets in the form of dragons, which were supposed to scar Athenas delivery of Erichthonios to the care of the two guardians. Under certain circumstances, instead of joy and gladness, the birth of a child was, as in Thrice, and event of sorrow and misery. It purportedly announced the fact of an approaching enemy.\r\nI find it extraordinary that when it came to education the Greeks atlas tried to grow the poor as well as the blotto in one form or another, but when it came to the birth of the poor womans child she many times would be driven to despair. Therefore, her hands would be fill up with the blood of her child, with many boogies and rejoicing. On the fifth day from birth, a ceremony took place, which was called amphdromia. The child was na med usually until about the tenth day, this was because if an infant was going to die they believed it would be within ten days.\r\nThe child was usually named harmonise to what derived from some circumstance that had been going on around the time of conception or the birth. For example, thus Mariposa, homer being born away from Apollo attained the name of Halcyon, was inconsolable for the loss of her baby. Of course when we mention children we have to think about what on earth kinds of toys did the children have and what kind of games did they play? I found it evoke that some compete with a rattle that was actually made from that of a rattlesnake.\r\nSome had little chariots built by their slaves of course these were probably the richer children. Boys when able would reckon they were at war. In Greece as everywhere else education took place in the nursery. At birth a child was furnished with ideas in his mind, as his intelligence information would seem to strengthen the five sluices, which let in, as they believed to be all the flood of knowledge, this afterwards overflows his mind. closely education consists of observing the child. A most important part of the education for the boys consisted of physical discipline.\r\nWhether it was started by the men for lack of something to do, instead of going to war in a far off place, or as a tribute to the Gods gymnastics played an important role in every boys education. It was discouraged for a boy or a young man to make a profession of gymnastics, because as a warrior this person could not go very long without water or food. Although they were huge in acme and had enormous strength, they were susceptible to fatal attacks from disease if they departed form their usual habits and regime.\r\nIt seems that dance also played an important part of gymnastics routine. In Athens, it was a mark of illiberal education to be uneducated of the various forms of dancing. It was considered an absolute necessity by all Gr eeks to excel in the accomplishment of dance. Whether it was for the preparation for the slaying or the learning of the movements to help in battle dace was widely accepted as more than as any religious right. The Cretans, the Spartans, the Thessalians, and the Boeotians held this division of gymnastics in particular honor, chiefly with an outlook to war.\r\nThe Athenians and Ionians most generally contemplated it more as a representation of developing the beauty of the form, and conferring ease and elegance on the motion and display Its really becomes clear in this chapter of the book that the Olympic games both winter and summer, cutting and battleground, and inside games were started by the ancient Greeks. I neer really understood their importance until now, I knew they had a lot to do with the creation of the games, but it seems they cover all the bases.\r\nThey prepared them selves for war they were fulfilling their duties as citizens and at the same time brought to perf ection their strength, their vigor, and their manly beauty. They also knew that a healthful body created a healthy mind and improved learning performance. The healthy body was of great use during the hunt. The chase would often last for hours or days. To herdsman and shepherds, it was an occupation to them. The highly knowledgeable and educated often hunted for the fun of the chase, while the poorer population hunted for food and clothing from their kills.\r\nDogs or hounds were often used in the chase or hunt, and many great fables of that time were of fearless dogs that in the presence of their master would even attack a lion. Their use of camouflage and knowledge of traps and snares was used extensively for they were very intense hunters. It seems to me that a lot of their pursuit skills came from education and enrichment of their athletic abilities and they were able to use what they had conditioned in the gymnasium or on the field to track or hunt their game.\r\nLast but cer tainly not least in the education of the young was philosophy and poetry it was even considered a branch of the field sports and was enjoyed rather than studied. They were taken to menial amounts of material and would go over and over it to let it sink in rather than to learn handsome amount of knowledge that they might soon forget. school of thought in Greece comprehended religion, and to be religious was to act justly, benevolently, mercifully towards men, humbly and reverent toward God.\r\nIt was necessary to sustain knowledge of the whole theory of ethics, since virtue in their opinions was incompatible with ignorance. They believed like I do that if a man is a moral being he is accountable to the laws of God and his country and his duties to that country. And as in all free states (I thought this was a flop statement) reasoning and persuasion, not blind will and skirt chaser force are the instruments of government. As I end this report, I cant end it without giving my fee lings about what I have read. In my opinion, I found this book overwhelming at times. Many words as in emotions came to me as I read it.\r\n'