This Is Not Your Parents' Greek Life

The analysis features of becoming and development of cultural and leisure practices in Ancient Greece is the goal of the article. The author justifies the preconditions which formed the appropriate hierarchy of life values of ancient Greek and reated the base for leisure development in Ancient Greece. It has been determined the leading preconditions such as absolute kosmolohizm, religiosity and polytheism, mental features of ancient Greeks and agon of Greek life, human cultural activity, polis political system, special perception of freedom as condition of absence of bright expressed domination over the human and strict regulation of the individual behavior, his personality initiative, existence of free time that isn't occupied by routine and care of urgent daily needs. It has been revealed the essence of such cultural and leisure practices as symposiya, gymnasiya, professional, religious and political groups, agons, theatrical performances, visiting of agora and organization of events. It has been argued that the general patriarchal orientation of Greek civilization affected the system of leisure organization in Ancient Greece. It has been justified the opinion that value of leisure was being determined by its role in the aid of social balance: between thetendencies to integration and differentiation of society and to its unification and hierarchy. Therefore, there were coexistent leisure formsconnected with the opposite social tendencies: some leisure demonstrations were acceptable for all (or for most) groups of population, they unitedand consolidated it, and others, limited by some requirements, extended social, cultural and political differences. Consequently there is a distribution of leisure practices on private (in which people could to participate according to their interests), and social (collective); obligatory (the participation was compulsory), and voluntary (choice of which depended only on desires of people); "high" (addressed only to mental and physical development of people), and "inactive" (passiverecreation, entertainment or bodily pleasure).

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The Greek Life of St. Leo bishop of Catania (BHG 981b), Text and Notes by Alexandros G. Alexakis, Translation by Susan Wessel

Revue de l histoire des religions ◽

10.4000/rhr.8278 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 504-507

Author(s):

Annick Peters-Custot

Keyword(s):

Greek Life

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Rural sites in Roman Greece

Archaeological Reports ◽

10.1017/s0570608414000131 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 60 ◽

pp. 117-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Daniel Stewart

Keyword(s):

Field Survey ◽

Rural Landscape ◽

Greek Life ◽

Landscape Studies ◽

The Past ◽

Roman Greece ◽

Urban Core ◽

Urban Rural ◽

Rural Sites ◽

Textual Research

[W]hile pretending to throw some light upon classical authors by careful observation of the manners of the present day, romantic travellers succeeded in fact in accommodating reality to their dreams … by creating for themselves and for their readers carefully edited portraits of modern Greece that transformed the present into the living image of the past (Saïd 2005: 291).Thirty years ago archaeological field survey promised to reshape radically our understanding of the countryside (Keller and Rupp 1983: 1–5). Traditional archaeological approaches to cities and monuments were increasingly seen to be extensions of textual research, and research on the rural landscape was envisaged as a way to access the other side of the traditional urban-rural dichotomy (though see the comments in Alcock 2007: 671–72). Some scholars estimated that, in the Classical period, the vast majority of Greek poleis had populations of less than 3,000 and territories no more than a few hours” walk from the urban core. Given that, they asked, does it make sense to divide elements of Greek life into “city” and “country”? In a sense, the study of landscapes was seen as a way to redress perceived imbalances between this urban-rural division and the picture painted by the ancient sources of Roman Greece as a pale reflection of its Classical brilliance. In the years since, landscape studies have grown to include much more than archaeological field survey, but this tension between textual and archaeological narratives remains at the heart of understandings of rural Roman Greece.

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Greek Life Orientation Test--Revised

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t21981-000 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

George N. Lyrakos ◽

Dimitrios Damigos ◽

Venetsanos Mavreas ◽

Kostopanagiotou Georgia ◽

Ioannis D. J. Dimoliatis

Keyword(s):

Greek Life ◽

Life Orientation Test ◽

Life Orientation ◽

Orientation Test

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