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Greece is one of the few places in Europe where the day-to-day role of folk dance is sustained. Rather than functioning as a museum piece preserved only for performances and special events, it is a vivid expression of everyday life. Occasions for dance are usually weddings, family celebrations, and paneyeria (Patron Saints' name days).
Its ancient pottery collection dates from the 25th to the 1st century BC, while the clay figurines, jewelry and mosaics conserved in the museum date back to the 2nd-1st centuries BC. [5] Six rooms contain the statues and reliefs found in Delos; two rooms contain the pottery and another room contains items used in everyday life in ancient Greece ...
Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilisation, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and communities.
Garland, Robert 2013 Ancient Greece: Everyday Life in the Birthplace of Western Civilization, Sterling Press Garland, Robert 2014 Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great , Princeton: Princeton University Press
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Everyday life is a key concept in cultural studies and is a specialized subject in the field of sociology.Some argue that, motivated by capitalism and industrialism's degrading effects on human existence and perception, writers and artists of the 19th century turned more towards self-reflection and the portrayal of everyday life represented in their ...
Helladic chronology is a relative dating system used in archaeology and art history.It complements the Minoan chronology scheme devised by Sir Arthur Evans for the categorisation of Bronze Age artefacts from the Minoan civilization within a historical framework.
A 2013 archaeogenetics study by Hughey at al. published in Nature Communications compared skeletal mtDNA from ancient Minoan skeletons that were sealed in a cave in the Lasithi Plateau between 3,700 and 4,400 years ago to 135 samples from Greece, Anatolia, western and northern Europe, North Africa and Egypt.
Cyril E. Robinson (1978), Everyday Life in Ancient Greece, Praeger. C.E. (Cyril Edward) Robinson (2012), A History of England, Early and Middle Ages to 1485 , HardPress Publishing. References