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Restored North Entrance with charging bull fresco of the Palace of Knossos (), with some Minoan colourful columns. The first great ancient Greek civilization were the Minoans, a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on Crete and other Aegean Islands, that flourished from c. 3000 BC to c. 1450 BC and, after a late period of decline, finally ended around 1100 BC during the early Greek Dark Ages.
The church of Hagia Sophia (on the skyline) at Monemvasia, classed as an ancient (immovable) monument [1] [2]. The cultural heritage (Greek: πολιτιστική κληρονομιά) of Greece, as defined by Law 4858/2021, includes archaeological sites, historical sites, monuments both immovable and movable, and intangible cultural heritage.
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Cultural history of Greece (5 C, 15 P) I. Greek international schools (2 P) L. Languages of Greece (7 C, 23 P) LGBTQ culture in Greece (1 C, 1 P) M. Greek mascots (2 P)
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage elements are the non-physical traditions and practices performed by a people. As part of a country's cultural heritage, they include celebrations, festivals, performances, oral traditions, music, and the making of handicrafts. [1]
Greek mathematicians lived in cities spread over the entire region, from Anatolia to Italy and North Africa, but were united by Greek culture and the Greek language. [119] The development of mathematics as a theoretical discipline and the use of deductive reasoning in proofs is an important difference between Greek mathematics and those of ...
Still, Greek culture flourished during this period—city-states maintained a level of political autonomy, and Roman society adopted many aspects of Greek culture. For example, Roman poets like Ovid , Virgil , and Horace retold and adopted many Greek myths of old, folding them into Roman culture.
The Byzantine Empire inherited Classical Greek-Hellenistic culture directly, without Latin intermediation, and the preservation of Classical Greek learning in medieval Byzantine tradition further exerted a strong influence on the Slavs and later on the Islamic Golden Age and the Western European Renaissance.