Culture of ancient Greece

ancient citadel above the city of Athens

thumb|260px|right|The caryatid porch of the Erechtheion in [[Athens, Greece. These are now replicas. The originals are in the Acropolis Museum (with one in the British Museum).]] thumb|175px|The caryatid standing in contrapposto, originally part of the [[Erechtheion, was removed by Lord Elgin and is now displayed at the British Museum]]

literature written in ancient Greece or in the Ancient Greek language

biographies of famous Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

drinking fest in antiquity, part of a banquet

ancient Greek temple in Athens

deities or spirits of the underworld in Greek mythology

museum in Athens, Greece

thumb|250px|A 19th-century drawing of what the Propylaia (Acropolis of Athens)|Propylaea in Athens might have looked like when intact thumb|250px|Propylaea of Baalbeck In ancient Greek architecture, a propylon ( or ; Ancient Greek ) is a monumental gateway, also referred to as a propylaeum (, a Latinized form of ), and often given in the plural as propyla or propylaea. It serves as a partition, separating the secular and religious parts of a city. The prototypical Greek example is the propylaea that served as the entrance to the Acropolis of Athens, which inspired Greek Revival architecture su

thumb|300px|One of the mosaics of Delos, [[Greece with the symbol of the Punic-Phoenician goddess Tanit]] Hellenization or Hellenification is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient period, colonization often led to the Hellenization of indigenous people. In the Hellenistic period, many of the territories which were conquered by Alexander the Great were Hellenized.

thumb|Isocrates, shown here in a copy of a bust from [[Villa Albani in Rome, was one of the foremost thinkers about paideia.]] Paideia (/paɪˈdeɪə/; also spelled paedeia; ) referred to the rearing and education of the ideal member of the ancient Greek polis or state. These educational ideals later spread to the Greco-Roman world at large, and were called humanitas in Latin.

Ancient Greek dialect

rayed solar symbol

An epithalamium (; Latin form of Greek ἐπιθαλάμιον epithalamion from ἐπί epi "upon," and θάλαμος thalamos "nuptial chamber") is a poem written specifically to celebrate the bride on the way to her marital chamber. This form continued in popularity through the history of the classical world; the Roman poet Catullus wrote a famous epithalamium, which was translated from or at least inspired by a now-lost work of Sappho. According to Origen, the Song of Songs might be an epithalamium on the marriage of Solomon with the Pharaoh's daughter.

Greek ideal of beauty and goodness

the gate of the Acropolis of Athens

thumb|Kottabos player, Red-figure pottery|red-figure [[kylix, BC, Ancient Agora Museum, Athens]] Kottabos () was a game of skill played at Ancient Greek and Etruscan symposia (drinking parties), especially in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. It involved flinging wine-lees (sediment) at a target in the middle of the room. The winner would receive a prize (κοττάβιον or "kottabion"), comprising cakes, sweetmeats, or kisses.

Greek word for hospitality

thumb|upright=1.4|Pinax on the south wall of the exedra in the House of the Prince of Naples in Pompeii In the modern study of the culture of ancient Greece and Magna Graecia, a pinax (Greek: πίναξ; : pinakes, πίνακες, meaning 'board') is a votive tablet of painted wood, or terracotta, marble or bronze relief that served as a votive object deposited in a sanctuary or as a memorial affixed within a burial chamber. Such pinakes feature in the classical collections of most comprehensive museums.

The syssitia ( syssítia, plural of syssítion) were, in ancient Greece, common meals for men and youths in social or religious groups, especially in Crete and Sparta, but also in Megara in the time of Theognis of Megara (sixth century BCE) and Corinth in the time of Periander (seventh century BCE).

fame/admiration for an exploit, sometimes personified in art

thumb|upright=1.1|Klismos chair, on the stele of Xanthippos, Athens, ca. 430–20 BCE A klismos (Greek: κλισμός) or klismos chair is a type of ancient Greek chair, with curved backrest and tapering, outcurved legs.

aspect of history

thumb|right|300px|East frieze of the Parthenon from the so-called Ergastinai ( "weavers") section, possibly depicting the kanephoroi handing the kanoun to the male figure on the extreme left. Louvre, MR825.

thumb|A replica xylospongium (sponge on a stick) thumb|Ancient Roman latrines in Ostia Antica

The Amphidromia (, ), in ancient Greece, was a ceremonial feast celebrated on the fifth or seventh day after the birth of a child.

ancient form of loom In which the warp threads hang vertically and are held taut with weights

thumb|Scallop shell offering hospitality to pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago|Way of St James

thumb|300px|Celebrating the Adonia: fragment of an Attic red-figure wedding vase, ca. 430–420 BCE

public service in ancient Greece established by the city-state

associations of ancient Greeks who were united by a common interest or goal

Marriage, unions and partnerships in ancient Greece

thumb|Cylix of Apollo (detail). Diphros (Greek: Δίφρος) was an Ancient Greek stool without back and with four turned legs. It was easily transportable and so in common use. Gods are shown sitting on diphroi on the Parthenon frieze; women used them in their home. The foldable diphros was called δίφρος ὀκλαδίας diphros okladias. Diphros was also called the saddle of chariot-board, on which two could stand, the driver ἡνίοχος heniochos and the combatant παραιβάτης paraibatês. These objects are only part of the larger body of ancient furniture attested to in texts and images.

ways to style hair in the ancient Rome

former museum on the Acropolis of Athens

small stones rubbed for anxiety

folklore of the ancient Greeks

thumb|View of Azoria from the Kastro with the Kavousi plain and Bay of Mirabello, with the island of Pseira, in the background Azoria is an archaeological site on a double-peaked hill overlooking the Gulf of Mirabello in eastern Crete in the Greek Aegean. "Azoria" (o Αζοριάς or () Μουρί τ' Αζωργιά) is a local toponym, not apparently an ancient place name or epigraphically-attested Greek city. Located about 1 km southeast of the modern village of Kavousi, and 3 km from the sea, the site occupies a topographically strategic position ( m above sea level) between the north Isthmus of Ier

ancient sanctuary of the Muses under Mt. Helicon

Garden and ancient site in Marseille, France

Ancient Greek methods of consulting their gods

two dialects with this name

thumb|350x350px|Achilles mourning the death of Patroclus. Corinthian Chytra Kleos () is the Greek word often translated to "renown" or "glory". It is related to the English word "loud" and carries the implied meaning of "what others hear about you". A Greek hero earns kleos through accomplishing great deeds.

various ways to style hair that were popular among the Greeks and the Romans in the ancient world