Presentations about Fraternities and Sororities made by my 2nd BC bilingual students. Congratulations for your effort!!

Team 1: Pablo, Gonzalo and Miguel

Team 2: Gabriel, David and Pablo

Team 4: Mónica, Ana and Lucía

Team 6: Gonzalo, Guillermo and Mario

Team 7: Alba and Andrea

Team 8: Estela and Nidia

Team 9: Sara and Sandra

Team 10: Desirée and María

Team 11: Julio and Pablo

3. Childhood in the Classical World:


Here you have the summary of Unit 3 as I promised. Enjoy!

Roman naming:

Over the course of the centuries, the Romans and other peoples of Italy employed a system of nomenclature that differed from that used by other cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean It consisted of a combination of personal and family names. Although conventionally referred to as the tria nomina, the combination of praenomen, nomen, and cognomen that have come to be regarded as the basic elements of the Roman name, in fact represent a continuous process of development, from at least the seventh century BC to the end of the seventh century AD.

These names  exerted a profound influence on the development of European naming practices, and many continue to survive in modern languages.

Aquí tenéis la información sobre los "Tria Nomina" proporcionada por nuestra directora, Marta: Tria Nomina

Writing systems:

The general attributes of writing systems can be placed into broad categories such as alphabets, syllabaries, or logographies. In the alphabetic category, there is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) of consonants and vowels that encode based on the general principle that the letters (or letter pair/groups) represent speech sounds.

In a syllabary, each symbol correlates to a syllable.

In a logography, each character represents a word, morpheme, or other semantic units. Alphabets typically use a set of 20-to-35 symbols to fully express a language, whereas syllabaries can have 80-to-100, and logographies can have several hundreds of symbols.

Writing systems were preceded by proto-writing, which used pictograms, ideograms and other mnemonic symbols. However, Proto-writing lacked the ability to capture and express a full range of thoughts and ideas.

Most Chinese characters are classified as logograms, let’s watch this interesing video:

The Roman calendar:

The Roman calendar changed its form several times between the founding of Rome and the fall of the Roman Empire. The common calendar widely used today is known as the Gregorian calendar and is a refinement of the Julian calendar, which lasted 365.25 days.

From at least the period of Augustus on, calendars were often inscribed in stone and displayed publicly. Such calendars are called fasti.

Here you have more information (in Spanish) about its origins, evolution and characteristics:

The Indo-European Languages:

The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects. The most widely spoken Indo-European languages by native speakers are Spanish, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Persian and Punjabi, each with over 100 million speakers. Today, 46% of the human population speaks an Indo European language, by far the most of any language family, 

The Indo-European family includes most of the modern languages of Europe, and parts of Western, Central and South Asia. It was also predominant in ancient Anatolia (present-day Turkey), and the ancient Tarim Basin (present-day Northwest China) and most of Central Asia until the medieval Turkic migrations and Mongol invasions. With written evidence appearing since the Bronze Age in the form of the Anatolian languages and Mycenaean Greek, the Indo-European family is significant to the field of historical linguistics as possessing the second-longest recorded history, after the Afroasiatic family

Here you have a couple of interesting and entertaining videos to learn more about The Classical Greece and The Roman Empire. They are in Spanish. Enjoy them!

1. LANGUAGES AND THEIR CLASSICAL ORIGIN.

The Greek alphabet:

It comes from the Phoenician, which was adapted by the 9th century BC, with some modifications. At the beginning, there were only capital letters without punctuation, like commas or question marks. In the end it would initiate the rest of the alphabets used in current Europe. Around 500 BC the direction of Greek writing was established, from left to right. Finally, many Greek letters are used today, especially in scientific subjects.

The subject is divided into 10 units, all of them of great importance and interest. Have a look at them:

INDEX:

1. LANGUAGES AND  THEIR CLASSICAL ORIGIN

2. GRECO-ROMAN RELIGION

3. CHILDHOOD IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD

4. THE FEMALE WORLD

5. THE MALE WORLD

6. POLITICS AND CITIZENSHIP

7. THE ARMY AND THE WAR

8. THE CLASSICAL ART

9. ANCIENT AND MODERN CITIES

10. GAMES AND SPECTACLE

The Greeks + Romans

We will start with a global vision of the major historical periods and geographic regions of the Greek and Roman civilizations.

What does the term 'Classical' means?

Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mditerranean Sea, comprising the civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world. It is the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and performed great influence throughout Europe, North Africa and Southwestern Asia.

When can we set the 'Classical period'?

Conventionally, it is taken to begin with the earliest-recorded Epic Greek poetry of Homer (8th–7th century BC), and continues through the emergence of Christianity and the decline of the Roman Empire (5th century AD). It ends with the dissolution of classical culture at the close of Late Antiquity (300–600), blending into the Early Middle Ages (600–1000).

Which are the main characteristics and influence of this Classical World?

The culture of the ancient Greeks, together with some influences from the ancient Near East, was the basis of art, philosophy, society, and educational ideals, until the Roman imperial period. The Romans preserved, imitated and spread over Europe these ideals until they were able to competitively rival the Greek culture, as the Latin language became widespread and the classical world became bilingual, Greek and Latiin. 
This Greco-Roman cultural foundation has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, art, and architecture of the modern world: From the surviving fragments of classical antiquity, a revival movement was gradually formed from the 14th century onwards which came to be known later in Europe as the Renaissance, and again resurgent during various neo-classical revivals in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Hi everyone! This is my new blog about Classical Culture in 2nd ESO. Here you'll find interesting information about different topics and aspects about the Greek-Latin World. Enjoy!