Greece

RUNNING HEAD : On Greece

On Greece

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Modern Western civilization , including philosophy and literature , owe much of its incipience from this deceptively humble peninsula , jutting out from the bottom of Europe to meet the Mediterranean region . Greece is home to many of the ancient and classical literary and philosophical trends that have dominated our thoughts on countless fields of study . It is the bedrock of Western civilization largely because of its prized thinkers , playwrights and scientists who laid the foundations that shall be and is perpetually being applied

even up to today

The names Socrates , Plato , Socrates along with Sophocles , Aristophanes and Demosthenes come immediately into mind when we speak of Greek culture or of the Hellas republic . These are a few of the famous icons in world history , most of them have universally influenced the way we think and see the world throughout the ages vis-a-vis their various accomplishments and writing

Modern Greece , however , tells of a different story about its recent achievements and its cultural heritages since the time of its glorious days . The classical ideas of the Greeks can not be separated from the study of the present Greek society . To speak of Greece now is to relive its ancient traditions , travails , information and accounts . Ancient Greece and the history that it is couched in is a vast storehouse of cultural and anthropological merit that , more often than not , eclipses the Greece of today

Geographically and resource-wise , Greece is comparatively at a disadvantage in terms of the amount of natural resources , the kind of climate and the spread of arable land it has . On the whole , the lands that compromise the entire country are not suitable for farming , mining or for sedentary occupation . There are stretches of uninhabitable areas and also a slew of mountain ranges too hostile for regular human occupancy . Summer weather in the lowlands is hot and dry , quite in contrast to the cold , rainy and snowy weather during the winter

There were once forest areas throughout the area but most of these have already been depleted to the point that only a little can be made use out of them . Although Greece has little to offer from its natural resources , it does have a rich supply of petroleum reserves and natural gases in its seas to more than make up for the apparent insufficiency

In hindsight , it is rather surprising to note that for a place where resources do not come in abundance , Greece still had created a huge and lasting impact on our consciousness . Historians would argue that precisely because of such uninviting and harsh conditions did Greek society flourish the way it has in the last hundreds of years

A paradox of sorts , this is explained by the simple natural truism that the worst of climates and situations bring out the best in people . Yet the question of how the modern Greece evolved remains a huge inquiry into its cultural and anthropological backdrop . While it is true that monumental turning...