Culture
How is Greek and European Culture interconnected
The impact of the Greek language to the development by Georgousi Petrina of the European Culture
Wasn’t it in ancient Greece that works of greatest importance and richness of ancient civ-
ilization were created, imprinted and inherited? It cannot be denied that the intellectual life of Europe (its philosophical, moral, political, and aesthetic thinking) dates back to the work of Greek thinkers. Greek is an inexhaustible language, which has not only survived for 3,000 years, but also lives through other European ones. Being one of the oldest written languages in the world, Greek has over the centuries directly and indirectly influenced and enriched the vocabulary of almost all European and some of the world’s languages. It is the one that documents and reflects the continuation of Hellenism from antiquity to the present day marks.
Ancient Greek values and the World
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832),
ancient Greeks values; those of freedom, digniwho was reading Homer at the tender age of ty, truth and faith, about which Greek philosoten, said: “What is the heart and the mind for phers, writers and poets were the first to speak. humans, is Greece for humanity”.
There is no doubt that the contemporary European Community was developed based on the
“The Greek language brings together the richness and homogeneity of German, the clarity of French, the musicality of Italian and the sobriety of Spanish.”—French poet and scholar Claude Fauriel (17 72 - 188 4).
Ancient Greek writing
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Apart from the above mentioned, still implemented in the European Union are the fundamental principles of justice and democracy, that contribute to the maintenance of stability and peacefulness.
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