2017 wordsIn an ever-changing world such as America, it is hard to trace the roots of a nation
so grand without getting lost in the everyday confusion of technological advancements.
Still, much of what America is today is owed largely to such cultures as the Greeks,
who have given this nation the building blocks to be a world power merging into the
new millennium. In fact, no other civilization that has come before can claim greater
influence on America than that of the Greek civilization.
Influences of the Greek world spill over into today's America in famous paintings
as the Judgement of Paris; literary masterpieces as the Iliad, the Odyssey, and
the New Testament (Septuagint); sporting favorites like the Olympics, which come every
four years; and other contributions, such as cathedrals, the catheter, the sciences and
math, and philosophy. Indeed, the entire scope of American culture dips into some
Four key areas of America today that have filtered great contributions from the
ancient Greeks are the arts (which include literature, architecture, and art work), family
values (which focus on hierarchy, roles of family members, and education), culture
(which consists of sports, religion, philosophy, the sciences and math), and integrated
terms, phrases, and expressions. It is in these facets of the America of the new
millennium that prevail the influences of a Greek society.
Looking first at the emphasis today's America puts on the arts, it is evident that
there is a little bit of Greek in everyone. One prime example of this is the Septuagint, or,
as it is more commonly called, the New Testament of the Holy Christian Bible. It was
written in Greek, during the times of the great thinkers and at a time when the Greek
civilization was at its high point. Though it has been translated into English, the Greek
aspects of this most acclaimed work of all tim...