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Ancient Greece in popular culture and in our modern world?
Could you give me examples of contemporary art, architecture and literature and even films that are influenced by the ancient Greek civilization?
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- If it isn't the popular movies you are asking about, I think you should follow the Greek-Roman-European trail era by era. Wow. That's a huge topic. Maybe you should narrow it down to Troy and 300 Spartans.
- Speaking about "popular culture", many ancient greek customs survived till now, with a tension to be eliminated. One can mention burrial customs, marriage customs, maskarade customs related to fertility, popular beliefs about nature, etc. Contemporary artists, not many, have been inspired by ancient art, and one can mention Fassianos and Stathopoulos, while some representatives of the previous generation of artists had an inspiration from Bysantine art (Papaloukas, Kopsidis, Tassos, Katraki etc). Contemporary architecture is not at all influenced by ancient greek forms, on the contrary, the creations of former archtects like Pikionis and Konstantinides tend to be underestimated and forgotten. Unfortunately modern Greece has almost no contact with ancient greek architecture, art, literature, philosophy, due to our insufficient system of education, and even language is getting poorer day by day. There are modern Greeks who have never visited the Acropolis, the museums are being visited only by tourists and great greek authors like Kazantzakis, Myrivilis, Venezis, Papadiamantis, and many others are hardly known even as names. Greece is the country where everybody is proud of his/her ancient ancestrors without knowing anything about them, only the fact that they are highly appreciated by other nations...
- Well any construction that uses Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian columns is taking on Greek ideals, so most of your city halls and libraries are influenced by Greece. Theatres are designed on the ancient Greek ideal as well. As far as art goes, idealized sculpture is based partially on Greek and partially on Egyptian sculpture. Vases are influenced by Greek culture as well. For literature, most stories in general are influenced by Greek literature--drama (incl. tragedy and comedy) philosophy, epic poetry, lyric poetry (songs), and love poetry are all derived from Greek literature. As far as films go, Troy, Alexander, 300, Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts, and several films in the 60s were all derived from Greek history.
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