Differences between Greek Culture and Latin Culture

First of all, different cultural groups

Greek culture refers to a regional cultural group dominated by ancient Greece.

Latin cultural circle, formed during the Roman Empire, refers to the cultural circle with Latin as its mother tongue, L Latin alphabet as its mother writing system and old religion as its mother belief, which mainly inherits the culture of the Roman Empire.

Second, the main languages are different.

Greek culture is mainly Greek, which often refers to Attica dialect and Athens dialect.

The main languages of this cultural circle are: Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian belonging to Italian family, Slovenian, Czech, Slovak and Croatian belonging to Slavic family and Yugoslav school.

English, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Icelandic are Germanic, Hungarian and Finnish are Urals, and Irish is Celtic. These languages are written in Latin letters.

Third, different cultural achievements.

Greece is the origin of western civilization. Modern democracy originates from Greek democracy, jury system and equality before the law. The reason why the Greeks can develop in many subjects, such as biology, geometry, history, philosophy, physics, etc., is because they have systematic thinking.

The Greeks also introduced many literary forms, such as epic, poetry, history, tragedy, comedy and so on. They pursue adjustment and harmony, and this concept of beauty has greatly influenced western art.

Latin cultural circle? [Its geographical scope mainly includes most parts of Europe, North America, Oceania and other places. Because South America has been colonized by the West for a long time in modern times, culture has been assimilated by European colonists, and sometimes it is regarded as a part of Latin cultural circle.

The main characteristics of Latin cultural circle are: the people believe in Catholicism (and Protestantism), and the Latin alphabet is widely used, which inherits the culture of ancient Rome and ancient Greece.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Greek Culture

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Latin cultural circle