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Life And Death Of The Ancient Greeks

Posted on:2012-03-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B B LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330335987251Subject:World History
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View of human life and death has always been the issue repeatedly in the History and philosophy .Ancient Greek civilization has been attracted by the world's attention,because of its long history of ancient Greek civilization and the great impact of world civilization. Ancient Greek conception of death is different from other civilizations,due to a specific geographical location, history characteristics, social environment and early civilizations and other reasons.The ancient Greeks unique view of life and death also allows them to have unusual refined and temperament. The classical period of ancient Greek civilization is the brilliant and wealthy representative.This paper is divided into three parts to discuss the life and death of the ancient Greeks .The introduction introduces the topic of significance. And elaborate the current academic view of life and death of ancient Greek studies, and the subject of research methods.The first part primary analyzes a variety of reasons how the ancient greeks view of life and death generated. The Greek marine environment, the Mediterranean climate, open and democratic system of government, outside the colonial expansion, abnormal prosperity of literature and art for many reasons, that had a significant impact on the formation of view of life and death of the ancient Greeks.The second part analyzes the development of the history of Greek Life and Death in the classical era of Greek.They had influence on the view of life and death of the ancient Greeks. Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and other philosophers elaborated on the human soul, view of life and death,the pursuit of virtue, happiness and so on. The conceptes had a important role on the life and death of classical Greek.The third part discusses the characteristics of the classical period of ancient Greeks conception on death and life as well as the impact of modern society. View of life and death of the ancient greeks pay attention to the real happiness of life and the feelings of the individual. They believe in destiny, without giving up a personastruggle.The spirit of the Olympic sports is the best interpretation of this.The ancienGreeks throught that Survival is happy, Death is sad.They respect for thrational.Nowadays, we can find shadow of these ideas from the European Social. Thistudy world plays an important reference on the modern human beings in ouspiritual.Conclusion section summarizes the full-text. Ancient Greek concept of life anddeath had an important impact in many ways of the modern conception of life anddeath, including the concept of the soul, values, and individual and collectivinterests.
Keywords/Search Tags:the classical period of ancient, Greek, view of human life and death, soul, happiness, rational
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