1 of 7

Slide Notes

DownloadGo Live

greek culture influence on US today

Published on Nov 19, 2015

No Description

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

GREEK INFLUENCE

ON: GOVERNMENT, LITERATURE, ART, SPORTS
Photo by Nataraj Metz

GOVERNMENT

  • We us the Greek government as a model like how we,
  • We use citizenship
  • Representative democratic style of government
  • Select our public officals

LITERATURE

  • Greeks taught us how to use
  • Fables witch teach us a life lesson
  • Created mythology to explain events in the world
  • Other myths would talk about gods and heros
  • Some of those myths would be told in epic poems
Photo by » Zitona «

ART

  • influence on the humam figure
  • how to portray bones, muscles,
  • also to portay natual stance and athletic.
  • There techniques used in pottery and painting we still use today
Photo by khawkins04

SPORTS

  • Sports greeks created
  • Soccer, but instead of a ball they used human heads.
  • Boxing, but they wrapped leather around there hands
  • and they put metal under it. And they did not wear clothes.
  • But today in soccer we use a ball, and in boxing they use gloves.
Photo by multisanti

THATS HOW GREECE INFLUENCED THE US

Photo by theqspeaks

THANK YOU

BY: BRYLEE WELLS 4th HR
Photo by thisisbossi