21 Facts About Greek civilization

Later, the Mycenaean Greek civilization erected palatial structures at Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos.

Range of domestically and internationally known composers and performers across the musical spectrum have found success in modern Greece, while traditional Greek civilization music is noted as a mixture of influences from indigenous culture with those of west and east.

Famous Greek civilization musicians and composers of modern era include the central figure of 20th-century European modernism Iannis Xenakis, a composer, architect and theorist.

Greek civilization taverns providing live entertainment often include folk dances in their program.

Heptanese School of painting succeeded the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek civilization post-Byzantine painting after Crete fell to the Ottomans in 1669.

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Notable playwrights of the modern Greek civilization theatre include Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, Angelos Terzakis, Pantelis Horn, Alekos Sakellarios and Iakovos Kambanelis, while notable actors include Cybele Andrianou, Marika Kotopouli, Aimilios Veakis, Orestis Makris, Katina Paxinou, Manos Katrakis and Dimitris Horn.

Greek civilization cuisine has a long tradition and its flavors change with the season and its geography.

Ancient Greek civilization cuisine was characterized by its frugality and was founded on the "Mediterranean triad": wheat, olive oil, and wine, with meat being rarely eaten and fish being more common.

The earliest evidence of Greek civilization wine has been dated to 6,500 years ago where wine was produced on a household or communal basis.

Outstanding Greek civilization public figures in the 20th century include Cretan-born Eleutherios Venizelos, prominent statesman of the interwar period; Ioannis Metaxas, dictator from 1936 until his death; Constantine Karamanlis, prime minister and president of Greece; George Papandreou, head of the Center Union Party and prime minister ; and his son Andreas Papandreou, the PASOK leader who became prime minister in 1981.

Greek civilization language is the official language of the Hellenic Republic and Republic of Cyprus and has a total of 15 million speakers worldwide; it is an Indo-European language.

Greek civilization has had enormous impact on other languages both directly on the Romance languages, and indirectly through its influence on the emerging Latin language during the early days of Rome.

The Classical era is that most commonly associated with Greek civilization Literature, beginning in 800 BCE and maintaining its influence through to the beginnings of Byzantine period, whereafter the influence of Christianity began to spawn a new development of the Greek civilization written word.

The many elements of a millennia-old tradition are reflected in Modern Greek civilization literature, including the works of the Nobel laureates Odysseus Elytis and George Seferis.

Greek civilization was the central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School.

Greek civilization world is widely regarded as having given birth to scientific thought by means of observation, thought, and development of a theory without the intervention of a supernatural force.

Some Greek civilization thinkers decided to not accept religious explanations for how the world works, an example being Xenophanes.

Greek civilization Orthodox Church, largely because of the importance of Byzantium in Greek civilization history, as well as its role in the revolution, is a major institution in modern Greece.

The Greek civilization state has fully approved the construction a main mosque for the more recent Muslim community of Athens under the freedom of religion provisions of the Greek civilization constitution.

Many Greek civilization athletes have achieved significant success and have won world and olympic titles in numerous sports during the years, such as basketball, wrestling, water polo, athletics, weightlifting, with many of them becoming international stars inside their sports.

Greek civilization athletes have won a total 146 medals for Greece in 15 different Olympic sports at the Summer Olympic Games, including the Intercalated Games, an achievement which makes Greece one of the top nations globally, in the world's rankings of medals per capita.