The Impact And Effect Of Greek Religion To Greek Art And Literature

The Greek religion played an important role on its historicaland cultural development as well as the creation of art. By associa-ting with Greek polities , life, ideas, not only it penetrated into litt-erateurs and artists' life and their soul, stimulated their hearty creat-ivity, but also provided as a seedbed, loose space, diverse fodderand its exclusive style and characteristics for the literature and artwhich lead to the prosperity of literature and art. Without its adva-ntaged religion, Greeks can never create such impressive literatureand work of arts.This essay is trying to apply a holistie and deep analysis to t-he origin, development and prosperity of Greek literature and art f-orm the aspect of its religion. It is by this way that a better unde-rstanding of Greek culture and history can be achieved. Apart fromthe foreword and conclusion, it consists of three parts.the first part is the general description of Greek religion. Thispart has mainly presented the origin, development, constitute, chara-cteristics and social function of Greek religion.The second part is its impact and effect to the Greek literature,which has mainly analyzed the impact and effect of Greek religion to the primary presenting from of its literature such as poems, op-era and prose.The third part is its impact and effect to the Greek art, whichhas mainly dissertated the Greek form of art of architecture andcarve and the element of religion in the creative work of artists.