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From artistry to politics, ancient Greece left a considerable impression on world history. Learn why Greek and Roman gods share so many similarities, how the alphabet got its name, and how the legacy of ancient Greece has evolved over thousands of years.
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HELLENIC COSMOS Cultural Centre
The Living Museum of Hellenism
Experience ancient Hellenic History and Culture
using exciting state-of-the-art technology!
A must-see attraction
Hellenic Cosmos, the Cultural Centre of the Foundation of The Hellenic World is a state-of-the art interactive museum in Athens, where culture and new technologies come together.
Hellenic Cosmos' ultra-modern and innovative facilities provide the visitor with the opportunity to experience Hellenic history and culture in a unique way.
Virtual reality tours of ancient Greek cities that rise in front of the audiences' eyes, interactive exhibitions, educational programs and documentaries, are some of the Centre's offerings that enable visitors of all ages to learn about Hellenic culture, while using state-of-the-art technology and modern audiovisual and interactive media.
Hellenic Cosmos welcomes more than 300,000 visitors per year. It prouds itself for being the number one destination for Greek students according to official data provided by the Ministry of Education.
Well-trained and highly-experienced personnel ensures high- level and friendly audience management and guarantees an excellent visitor's experience.
Hence, Hellenic Cosmos is with no doubt a must-see attraction for all of Athens' visitors.
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Delphi Greece
Delphi] is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis.
Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew Python, a dragon who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth. Python (derived from the verb pythein, to rot) is claimed by some to be the original name of the site in recognition of Python which Apollo defeated.[2] The Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo recalled that the ancient name of this site had been Krisa.[3]
Apollo's sacred precinct in Delphi was a panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years, starting in 776 BC[4] athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four panhellenic (or stephanitic) games, precursors of the Modern Olympics. The victors at Delphi were presented with a laurel crown (stephanos) which was ceremonially cut from a tree by a boy who re-enacted the slaying of the Python.[4] Delphi was set apart from the other games sites because it hosted the mousikos agon, musical competitions.[2]
These Pythian Games rank second among the four stephanitic games chronologically and based on importance.[4] These games, though, were different from the games at Olympia in that they were not of such vast importance to the city of Delphi as the games at Olympia were to the area surrounding Olympia. Delphi would have been a renowned city whether or not it hosted these games; it had other attractions that led to it being labeled the omphalos (navel) of the earth, in other words, the center of the world.[5]
In the inner hestia (hearth) of the Temple of Apollo, an eternal flame burned. After the battle of Plataea, the Greek cities extinguished their fires and brought new fire from the hearth of Greece, at Delphi; in the foundation stories of several Greek colonies, the founding colonists were first dedicated at Delphi.[6]
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Athens (4K Video)
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is a multi-site with a total area of 210,000 m², which includes the premises of the National Library of Greece and the National Opera, as well as a urban park and other smaller facilities . The Stavros Niarchos Foundation donated 630,000,000 euros and its total value is estimated at around 3,000,000,000 euros. The building and the park are located in the Faliro Bay, administratively located in the Municipality of Kallithea.
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DEF 2016: Ulysses Kyriacopoulos, former Chairman, Hellenic Foundation of Greek Enterprises (SEV)
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INJECTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE GREEK ECONOMY
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Golden Age of Athens, Pericles and Greek Culture | World History | Khan Academy
Overview of cultural contributions of Classical Greece. Golden Age of Athens. Age of Pericles.
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Museum of the Hellenic Cosmos
The design proposal focuses on the concept of a museum of history - not original historical exhibits. The design principle is based on the spatio-psychoanalytic concept of lack (deeply routed in Greek culture) as a critique against the notions of ‘collection’/ ‘acquisition’. Both as sense of loss of original pieces as well as creative spatial process, lack, led to the formulation of a new museological approach integrating exhibition and building into one. Spatiality is conceived, psychoanalytically, as the mode of history, and highlighted both as the major diachronic documentation of Greek civilization (recurring, homeomorphing, collocating) and the main concept of the building: a spatial monument as opposed to a symbolic memorial.
The proposed continuous strip, self-evolving across the building, produces homeomorphic curved schemes in three distinct, spatial gestures/installations: a) the amphitheater introducing Classical Antiquity, b) the dome introducing Byzantine, c) the sheltering cell introducing Modern times (17th - early 20th century), covering the overall museum space. Accordingly, three distinct lighting treatments are proposed: a) bright daylight, small sharp shadows, b) indirect, ambient, no shadows, c) cinematic side-lighting, long shadows. Yet, the strip surface employs a gradient synthesis of materials and construction techniques - varying from: a) tectonic, marble, stone, b) cast material, c) timber, glass and metal structures.
Client: Foundation of Hellenic World, Athens, Greece.
Total exhibition space: 6000 sq.m
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Delphi is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis. In Greek mythology, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python, a deity who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth. Python (derived from the verb pythein, to rot) is claimed by some to be the original name of the site in recognition of the Python that Apollo defeated (Miller, 95). The Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo recalled that the ancient name of this site had been Krisa. His sacred precinct in Delphi was a panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years, starting in 586 B.C. (Miller, 96) athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four panhellenic (or stephanitic) games, precursors of the Modern Olympics. The victors at Delphi were presented with a laurel crown which was ceremonially cut down from a tree in Tempe by a boy who re-enacted the slaying of the Python (Miller, 96). Delphi was set apart from the other games sites because it hosted the mousikos agon, musical competitions (Miller, 95). These Pythian Games rank second among the four stephanitic games chronologically and based on importance (Miller, 96). These games, though, were different from the games at Olympia in that they were not of such vast importance to the city of Delphi as the games at Olympia were to the city of Olympia. Delphi would have been a renowned city whether or not it hosted these games; it had other attractions that led to it being labeled the omphalos (navel) of the earth, in other words, the center of the world (Miller, 96-7). In the inner hestia (hearth) of the Temple of Apollo, an eternal flame burned. After the battle of Plataea, the Greek cities extinguished their fires and brought new fire from the hearth of Greece, at Delphi; in the foundation stories of several Greek colonies, the founding colonists were first dedicated at Delphi. ( source Wikipedia )
ANCIENT GREEK TOUR GOULANDRIS FOUNDATION MUSEUM of CYCLADIC ART ATHENS Prt#1
June 2008 Athens, A visit to the N.P. Goulandris Foundation Museum of Cycladic Art. Has a unique and modern exhibition on the scenes of daily life of Greek Antiquity. It encompass's mythology, life and death, war, politics, crafts and cultural determination. This is a Must See, when visiting Athens for those history enthusiasts, students and anyone who has a pathos for Ancient Greek history. The atmosphere is inviting and draws the viewer as an interactive component to this marvelous exhibition.
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The Persians & Greeks: Crash Course World History #5
In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.
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What did democracy really mean in Athens? - Melissa Schwartzberg
View full lesson: ↵↵While we might consider elections to be the cornerstone of democracy, the Athenians who coined the term actually employed a lottery system to choose most of their politicians. Melissa Schwartzberg describes the ins and outs of the Athenian democracy, and addresses some ways in which a lottery system might benefit us today. ↵↵Lesson by Melissa Schwartzberg, animation by TED-Ed.
President Kovind addresses the Hellenic Foundation for Europe and Foreign Policy in Athens
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, addressed a gathering of diplomats, policymakers and academics in Athens today (June 19, 2018) on the subject “India and Europe in a Changing World”. The event was organised by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) – a leading foreign policy think tank in Greece and in Europe.
The President said that India is committed to world peace. He said that India sees peace not just as the absence of conflict but as a reflection of sustainable development and indeed of any effort that anticipates and prevents strife and suffering. When we work for combating climate change, we contribute to world peace. When we assist other developing countries, as per their priorities, and strive for a less unequal world we contribute to world peace. When we rescue and evacuate not just our own citizens from troubled regions, but those of 40 other countries – as we did during the Yemen crisis of 2015 – we contribute to world peace. When we put considerable troops and resources at the disposal of United Nations peacekeeping operations, we contribute to world peace.
President said that radicalisation and terrorism are pressing global concerns. Pockets of instability and extremism can be found in the region to Europe’s east and India’s west. They are a worry for both Europe and India. Promotion of terrorism by state and non-state actors; extremism in a variety of forms and rooted in senseless hate; the proliferation of sensitive weapons; the use of regular communication and financial channels by terror groups – these pose a challenge to not one nation or the other but to all humanity.
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Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to c. 5th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (c. 600 AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era.
Included in ancient Greece is the period of Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the era of the Persian Wars. Because of conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.
Classical Greek culture, especially philosophy, had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean Basin and Europe. For this reason Classical Greece is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of modern Western culture and is considered the cradle of Western civilization
In the 8th century BC, Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. Literacy had been lost and Mycenaean script forgotten, but the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, modifying it to create the Greek alphabet. From about the 9th century BC written records begin to appear.
Greece was divided into many small self-governing communities, a pattern largely dictated by Greek geography: every island, valley and plain is cut off from its neighbors by the sea or mountain ranges.
The Lelantine War (c. 710 – c. 650 BC) is the earliest documented war of the ancient Greek period. It was fought between the important poleis (city-states) of Chalcis and Eretria over the fertile Lelantine plain of Euboea. Both cities seem to have suffered a decline as result of the long war, though Chalcis was the nominal victor.
A mercantile class arose in the first half of the 7th century, shown by the introduction of coinage in about 680 BC. This seems to have introduced tension to many city-states.
The aristocratic regimes which generally governed the poleis were threatened by the new-found wealth of merchants, who in turn desired political power. From 650 BC onwards, the aristocracies had to fight not to be overthrown and replaced by populist tyrants. This word derives from the non-pejorative Greek τύραννος tyrannos, meaning 'illegitimate ruler', and was applicable to both good and bad leaders alike
Athens and Side-Trips
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | The thriving capital of Greece sprawls out from the foot of its magnificent Acropolis. We'll tour the must-sees of ancient Athens: the Parthenon, Agora, and amazing National Archaeological Museum. We'll take the fast-paced pulse of the modern city, but waste no time getting to Rick's favorite side-trip destinations: the ruins of the mystical oracle at Delphi and a fast boat to the romantic, traffic-free isle of Hydra.
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The Greeks still worship the Vedic Zeus
The video shows that modern Lord Zeus worshipers and also the reference of Zeus in Vedas.
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The Foundations of Classical Architecture: Greek Classicism
In part two of the ICAA's four-part educational video series on classical architecture, architectural historian Calder Loth explores the fundamental role that Greek classicism has played in the development of Western architectural traditions. Viewers may receive one continuing education (CE) and/or AIA credit by watching this video and subsequently scoring at least 80% on a quiz that tests your understanding of the material. To learn more, click here:
The Enduring Influence of Greek Culture by Sir Basil Markesinis @ The Hellenic Centre (12/4/2016)
An illustrated lecture by Sir Basil Markesinis, QC, FBA.
Drawing on his personal experience, his wide reading and a highly peripatetic life as a Speaker and Geopolitical Advisor in three continents, our lecturer is attempting to explain the longevity of ancient works and how Greek thought helped shape what we now call Western Culture.
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Ancient Greece
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Ancient Greece is the civilization belonging to the period of Greek history lasting from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity and beginning of the Early Middle Ages with the rise of the Byzantine era following Justinian I. At the center of this time period is Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC, at first under Athenian leadership successfully repelling the military threat of Persian invasion. The Athenian Golden Age ends with the defeat of Athens at the hands of Sparta in the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC. Following the conquests of Alexander the Great, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.
Classical Greek culture had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean region and Europe, for which reason Classical Greece is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western civilization. ( source Wikipedia )