TRADITION AND CULTURE
Celebration days and customs
In Greek culture, time has a different meaning.
The days, the months, and the seasons are closely linked to the Orthodox tradition and the cycle of life (birth, marriage, death).
The Greek people possess a treasure...
Morals and Customs are the force that connects the past with the present, keeping alive the Greek tradition and history of centuries, cultivating faith in the great ideals (homeland, religion, family), and strengthening the national identity of the Greeks.
Morals are established standards of social behavior, "the unwritten laws" of Greek society, while customs are the acts by which these standards are expressed.
Alongside the Christian calendar, the Greeks maintain ancient customs connected with the natural world and their perceptions of it.
From Linear B to ancient Greek and from there to a multitude of different dialects to today's modern Greek, the Greek language has proven that it is a living dynamic language, one of the few in the world that presents a homogeneous evolution and is a rare phenomenon in the linguistic history of the human race because it is spoken for thousands of years without interruption.
The modern Greek language preserves the ancient writing and spelling of words and 75% of its vocabulary is based on the ancient Greek language.
Approximately 28,000 English words, including keywords such as idea, theory, system, analysis, synthesis, category, hierarchy, method, hypothesis, myth, poetry, drama, music, harmony, politics, democracy, thence, machine, episteme, psyche, Eros, ecclesia, Christ, Europe, theology, etc. are all words of the Greek language
It is a language with unique virtues: it has expressiveness, flexibility, synthetic power, and the productive ability to produce and compose new words according to needs.
Considering that the Greek language evolved and was enriched with words and expressions from the ever-changing everyday life, the history and tradition consist of elements that have been preserved until today, rendering it the most important means of genuine expression of the Greek Culture.
In the spoken language, quotations of popular wisdom are idiomatic expressions, proverbs, proverbial phrases, which were and are widely used by the people, so much so that they have long ceased to be distinguished from the everyday phrases of the basic body of the language or to constitute a criterion of knowledge. They have penetrated deep into the core of the Greek language, were incorporated, assimilated and became one with it.
The contents of the pages of the site concerning the Greek language provide information on learning sounds, words, and phrases for basic everyday oral communication in the modern Greek language, and collections of phrases of popular wisdom, riddles, etc. which are listed with the corresponding historical/laographic information.
All the information provided is the result of personal experience, involvement, research and recording, by a native speaker who is passionate about the Greek language. It is neither a scientific study nor, of course, a complete guide for the systematic and complete learning of the Greek language.
The purpose is enjoyable learning about the cultural aspects of the modern greek language as a communication tool.
TIME LINE
TRIODIO
It is the preparation period of the faithful for Easter that begins almost 2 months before Easter Sunday. It contains the Carnival season, Tsiknopempti, Clean Monday, Lent and the Great (Holy) Week.
OHI DAY
National holiday celebration concerning October 28th, 1940, the day that Greece entered WW II known as day of OHI (NO)
CHRISTMAS PERIOD
The Greek Christmas period according to the popular holiday calendar lasts 12 days from Christmas Eve (December 24) to Epiphany (January 6th)Three major holidays are celebrated on those days:Christmas, New Year and Theophany.
More celebration days coming soon...