Culture

Festivals were a very important to ancient greece. The Festivals meant that the greeks were worshipping the gods. In the vestivals they have another way of honoring the gods.They did competitions in music, poetry, drama, and also athletic games. The most important thing about the festivals is the athletic competition, because of the olympic games. The olympic games were in honor of Zeus. The Pythian Games were held at Delphi, in honor of Apollo. One Festival in athens involved a competiton between playwrights, in which they were honoring Dionyos. When honoring the playwrights it led to the creation of the best known plays from ancient Greece. These plays were written by people such as Sophokles, Euripides, and Aristophanes