CLAS 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Panhellenic Games, Italian Empire, Indo-European Languages
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Close and related (indo-european), but culturally and. Into alexander the great"s empire; later, part of roman empire. As ime went by these populations became more diversified as they got further from each other. However there are common thenes such as rituals, cult and myth that is shared amongst the decendents of the indoeuropeans. These commonalities are common with india, persia, germania and the british. Greeks and romans were considered culturally and politically different. The biggest difference: greeks never coalesced into greece. They were a seied of city states and never unified. The only time at peace were the olympic games held at the sanctuary of zues in. As these were pan-hellenic games, a celebration of being greek, a. Truce of sorts was held so everybody could trvel to the games. Greece was eventually incorporated into the roman empire. Before greece became part of rome, greece became part of alexander the.
