What are the similarities between ancient greece and modern greece?
To a certain extent modern Greece is a continuation of ancient Greece, as the latter survived and changed in the years of the Byzantine Empire. Although the Greeks never faced a medieval cultural ‘break’ as did western Europe, they did suffer centuries of conquest and oppression under the Turks, which undoubtedly influenced them. Also over the centuries, the Greek language changed and was to a certain extent simplified. Although modern Greek language and culture are similar in many ways to ancient Greece, there are major differences, primarily caused by the change in Religion. Ancient Pagan Greece was far more nature-oriented and more accepting of things like nudity and sexuality than modern Christian Greece. However we must keep in mind that the Greeks were the first to accept Christianity as their religion. Also, ancient Greece had no concept of Greeks being a “nation” as they were divided into many hundreds of City States (Polis, “Πόλη” in Greek) which spread out over the entire eas
