Religion plays an important role in the understanding of daily culture. 98% of the Greeks are Christian Orthodox. The rest of the population are Muslims, Roman Catholics, and Jewish. Greece and Russia are the only countries to have such a big proportion of Orthodox Christians

Most people lived by farming, fishing and trade. Others were soldiers, scholars, scientists and artists. Greek cities had beautiful temples with stone columns and statues, and open-air theatres where people sat to watch plays. Most people lived in villages or in the countryside.

The Greek culture is rich and vibrant. ... Greek people are very proud of who they are and speak of their heritage with great passion. They are united by their traditions, religion, language, music, food, and wine. All of these form the backdrop of Modern Greek culture and Greece's cultural identity.

Greeks have medium tan or if darker, olive skin tone. Most have light eyes with dark hair or blonde hair. It is more common to see Greeks with brown eyes than blue eyes. ... Some people might say Greeks look like “Middle Easterners”, but most Greeks look southern Italian or Spaniards, due to their European facial features.

What we call "mythology" today, was a big part of ancient Greek culture and taken as a whole it represent the bulk of what we know as Pagan religion mixed in with the ancients' heritage (the concept of "History" was born later in the 5th c. BCE). As such, it was later suppressed in favor of other religions.