In the history of world culture,
Ancient Greek and Roman culture occupies a position that cannot be ignored.
As we all know,
archaic
Greek civilization is the birthplace of western civilization,
As a conquering country, ancient Rome,
The great emperor built land across Europe, Asia and Africa.
China lasted for thousands of years,
Its culture is also an important part of world civilization. Ancient Rome conquered ancient Greece and absorbed it.
It carries forward the splendid culture of ancient Greece, and we can see many shadows of ancient Greek culture everywhere in ancient Roman culture.
But,
After all, there is a time-space distance between ancient Rome and ancient Greece.
There are many differences between the two cultures. Today, we will
Walk into these two civilizations together, witness their cultural differences and understand their personalities.
Ancient Greece was a mountain range,
The land is barren,
An area surrounded by the sea on three sides,
Agricultural and industrial reasons make Gu Xi
La people embarked on a road of developing commodity economy and overseas colonial expansion, and engaged in navigation and commercial activities all the year round.
Shaping the Greek nation
It has become an adventurous, active, lively, witty and open national character, which makes equality and freedom develop.
Spread, and then affected the entire ancient Greek culture, and became the internal driving force for ancient Greece to achieve outstanding cultural achievements.
In terms of world outlook, the ancient Greeks were actively exploring the origin of the world.
And thus produced a variety of philosophical thoughts, and so did ancient Greece.
Become the birthplace of European philosophy.
Greek religion comes from Greek mythology.
The characteristics of "God is similar to man"
The Greeks were not afraid of God,
The gods did not blindly follow, but endowed people with thoughts and emotions.
Many arts are based on myths.
work of art
In creative thinking
There is no sign of religious restraint.
But it permeated the author's rich imagination.
Full of human touch
It embodies the spirit of realism and the rationalization of humanism. From this perspective, Greek religion is
Relative freedom has not become an obstacle to cultural development.
In addition, the Greeks attached importance to physical exercise,
Its art is idealism.
Simple, simple, emphasizing * * *, elegant and exquisite.
Ancient Rome was established, developed and expanded through war.
The Romans considered themselves descendants of the God of War.
,
They go from architecture to
Be destroyed
,
There is not a second without fighting.
,
Most wars are wars of expansion.
,
Egypt
,
Gaul
(
France and Belgium
),
Iberian peninsula
peninsula
(
western
Spain and Portugal
),
Carthage
(
Tunisia
),
Persia
,
asia minor
(
turkey
),
These places are all Roman land.
,
This is about
Conquered by a convincing war.
Rome is more combative than Greece,
Greek sports have always been military training.
Subject, the Romans thought that military training was enough, and there was no need to participate in sports.
The Romans were less literate than the Greeks.
There are few poets in Rome who study and art, and they are relatively neglected. Greek city-states have their own religious system,
still
There are some religious systems higher than the polis,
Almost all religions in Rome belong to this regime,
The leader of the regime also served as a big sacrifice,
emperor
The emperor is often worshipped as a god.
Lack of innovative consciousness is often to maintain political rule on religious issues.
Deify people,
The greatest contribution of ancient Romans in culture was to attach importance to law and jurisprudence.
Their achievements in law and jurisprudence
It is still an important reference for countries to formulate laws.
Although ancient Rome developed industry and commerce with the victory of the overseas conquest war,
but
These did not alleviate the deepening contradiction between slaves and slave owners in Roman society and the contradiction between freemen.
Fight. Therefore, reflected in culture, ancient Roman culture has strong political and religious characteristics.
show
The slave-owning class decayed and declined,
Pessimism and despair;
There is no positive side in ancient Greek culture,
enterprising
National spirit.
Although ancient Rome learned from Greece in the cultural field,
But because of the aristocratic politics in Rome,
Especially the monarchy.
The degree of influence.
Culturally, it also adds a strong political and religious color.
In the creation of works of art, most of the works are
Monarchs and aristocratic politicians are the themes.
With an obvious aristocratic atmosphere.
How cold and reserved the facial expressions of the portrayed characters are.
Try to show
The holiness of the king,
Powerful power does not have the rich imagination, expressive power and dynamic beauty style in Greek works of art.
Grid. Literary works mainly whitewash Taiping and praise the emperor in content. Reflected in thought and law.
Du Zhi
Maintain aristocratic political system, private ownership and hierarchy.
Therefore, Roman law is the most complete law based on private ownership.
In the form of "
The Romans are also "the people who know best how to make the law serve their own intentions".
Ancient Roman culture developed on the basis of absorbing and enriching Greek cultural achievements.
The Romans were deeply influenced by Greek culture.
Influence.
However, due to its own political reasons,
The influence of economic and other factors on cultural achievements has only been realized in architecture and law.
Most of the outstanding achievements in literature and art are inherited from the cultural achievements of ancient Greece.
Lack of innovative consciousness. However, ancient times
Rome's absorption of Greek culture was not blind, but took its essence and discarded its dross.
It not only inherited the Greek tradition, but also safeguarded the people.
National characteristics and independent development
Roman culture and Greek culture can form the classical tradition of western culture.