Quotes About Culture

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

The Greek word barbaros at first just meant a foreigner who spoke a different language.

GREEK REVIVAL' 1669–1833

the urban space was dominated by the imposing rock known as the Acropolis

Carthage, in modern Tunisia, had grown from its origins as a Phoenician settlement

they did so by invitation of the pharaoh.

Constantinople had been saved, and with it the Greek-speaking Roman Empire.

Crete is home to an advanced civilisation that will be dubbed 'Minoan'

One of the first Greek words to be recognised in Linear B was represented

The Minoans at this time had spread their influence right across the southern Aegean.

previous centuries by the Phoenicians living on the Levantine seaboard.

in the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria. These include statues of Egyptian gods

This is why, when the Greeks adapted this system for their own use, they called it the 'alphabet'.

The people of the coastal lowlands have their own languages, related to Hittite.

Alexandrian courtiers took the incestuous royal marriage of Ptolemy Philadelphus ('Sibling-Loving') in their stride.

One ethnos that never did adopt the polis system was Macedonia.

This is the kingdom of the Hittites.

Constantinople was now the largest and richest city in Europe

Many of the most characteristic Macedonian names are transparently formed from Greek words.

the highest levels of Macedonian society were thoroughly Greek-speaking by the mid-fourth century BCE.

Macedonian centres of population began to look like Greek cities.

Alternatively, it may be that a form of early Indo-European arrived with the first farmers

Greek slowly emerged—distinct from others of the Indo-European group and incorporating elements

the distant origin of the Greek language may reach all the way back to the beginning of the period that we call the Neolithic