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Civilization Significance Of Ancient Greek Religious Festivals And The Inspiration To The Contemporary University

Posted on:2016-10-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2297330461988570Subject:Higher Education
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The ancient Greece religion is a primitive and ancient religious form. It has different style with other world’s religions, which did not has completely doctrine, and in most cases has no special clergy. However, it does not mean that the ancient Greek religion is a loose structure. Instead, almost all of their worship of the ancient Greek gods are extremely religious, while all of this owe to varieties and repeated of religious festivals’ celebrations in the ancient Greek cities.The civilization function of religious festivals to people have two sides.One of it reflects in the reconstruction of the inner spirit, and the other one reflects on demand of the external form. As the main manifestation of religion, Ancient Greek religious festivals interpret the spiritual connotation of ancient Greek religion, as which lack of completely religious system of ancient, and it have a big significance for ancient Greek people in potential moral education. As a form of festival, religious doctrine is a process to educate the Greeks, spread and consolidate its religious spiritual and values,clean the soul and spirit. To a certain degree, it also promotes the ancient Greeks to learn a variety of skills.The core ideas of the civilization of ancient Greek religious festivals manifested in promoting the comprehensive development of human. This option based on the perfection of both corporeity and spiritual. The standards of physical perfection is showed in athletic contest and the norm of spiritual perfection are reflected in the whole atmosphere and Calvary links among religious festivals. So that civilization significance of ancient Greek religious festivals can be played well.Therefore, the ancient Greek religion is not only simple holiday festivities, but also the external form of the ancient Greek religious culture,the embodiment of spiritual beliefs of the ancient Greeks, the expression ofreligious education, the important part of ancient Greeks Life Education.What’s more, it aims to cultivate all-aspect development individuals to ancient Greek city-state and build a perfect city.The significance of Ancient Greek religious festivals is to cultivate perfect body and personality, so as to achieve the goal which developing mind and body harmoniously and then led all-round human appearance. The sense of religious festival for the cities lie in training outstanding citizen,forming and consolidating citizen’s concept of cities, which is the basis for the perfect ancient Greek city-states established.
Keywords/Search Tags:Ancient Greek, Religious Festivals, Civilization
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