Although limestone was available the building material primarily used was stone, especially high quality marble. There was an abundance of marble both on the main lands and the islands of Greece. Marble was a major contributor of precision of details in the architecture of the ancient Greek. The ancient Greeks developed temple architecture over time. The rectangular temple, like the Parthenon, is the most well-known form of Greek public architecture.
“did the romans conquer the greeks, or did the greeks conquer the romans?” . My final opinion is that the greeks conquered the romans . In my assumption , for the greeks, it must have been much like living before they were physically conquered, they still had all theirs ways of living since the romans copied it. it is much more important to have conquered a civilization with your religion, art, technology, science, philosophy ,literature language, government, and the list goes on: then to have just conquered a civilization because you have a stronger military. The greek beliefs and lifestyles must have been that powerful for the romans to base their whole lives around it and have it impact the reason they were so great.
Arête represents the individual competition to achieve excellence in culture. This was the major role the Greek society lived upon. Hubris is the human conflict with human selfishness or pride. However, both civilizations fell due to natural disasters, and the growing instability and invasions from the East involving trade. Politically, Greece was revolutionary.
With a body that is rounded with long loose legs. This genre of art influenced the art of this civilization because it was new to have sculpture that looked more realistic than the others that have been around in the past. Lysippos is known for creating a new canon of ideal proportions for the human body. This new physique that he has created happened to gain favor and dominate through the end of the Hellenistic era. This artwork expresses and reveal what their culture was about and what they looked up to.
One of the decrees’ provisions stated that surplus from minting was to be subjected into a fund, which was most likely used in an era of economical strain, and anyone who objected this would be imperiled to the death penalty. It’s through this coinage system, one of the first of its era for Greece, that Athens was able to effectively maintain its control over their allies and dominate from an economical point of view. Furthermore, Athens geographically coastal location was easily accessible for the construction of the way station, this was able to better Athens in terms of trade throughout the Aegean, therefore enabling the Athenians to successfully and effectively maintain control over its allies. It also presented the Athenians the opportunity to trade a certain type of marble extracted from Penteli which was renowned in the Greek world for its high quality, as well as silver coins, which, in places that didn’t have the need for coins, was melted back to its clump state and used for trading. Through this convenient location, Athens was further given another way to assert it’s effectiveness in controlling the other city-states or allies, as having such a readily available Athenian port was crucial in the trading between other civilizations, including that of Egypt, Syria and Palestine (as well as the rest of the Persian Empire) through naval transportations.
Page 1 Pericles was one of the greatest Athenians during Classic Greece period between 495-429 BC. Born of an Alcmaenoid ( the noble Athenians) family, Pericles became an influential Athenian leader. Pericles had an amazing orator, leadership and strategos (army general) skills that helped him to strengthen the Athens which later transformed into an Athenian Empire. Following Cleisthenes' great modernization of Athens Pericles helped to establish a strong and powerful government by, uniting the hellenic states (small city-states around Aegean Sea) supporting a democratic government, improved the life of the Athenians, and excel in tactic and clever war strategies. Some historians such as Plutarch believed that Pericles was the one who initiated the Peloponnesian war that started in 431 BC.
The Parthenon is a beautiful marble temple that served as a model for the architecture of the Lincoln Memorial. The Lincoln Memorial shares these same qualities with the Parthenon but instead, a statue honoring Abraham Lincoln is inside. The ancient Greeks very much enjoyed storytelling especially about heroes. Hercules is a very famous hero of the ancient Greek time who displays many of the same characteristics as America’s own hero, Superman. Hercules and Superman both are not real but Hercules left the impact of showing what an ideal hero looks like.
It is also important to understand the interrelationship of the democratic changes with the events of the 5th century. The political changes that occurred in this period can rightly be seen as a turning point in history. In the first half of the 5th century, Athens developed from a land power to become the leading maritime state in Greece. At the same time, Athens underwent major political changes that revolutionised and transformed the state from a moderate to a radical democracy. The 'Radical Democracy' came about when Athens became more democratic with the introduction of a system of changes that allowed greater participation from ordinary citizens.
How did Romans improve upon the arch and dome styles set forth by the Greeks? - What were aqueducts and why were they significant to Roman society? - Why was Pompeii considered to be a wealthy and modern society (for the time)? (hint: What archeological evidence exists that would support this claim?) - Be able to recognize the areas conquered by the Roman empire.
The Romans willingly adopted many concepts from the Greek. An example of this is the Roman religion and its gods and goddesses, which was greatly influenced by contact with the Greeks. The Greek religion was a polytheistic religion. It consisted of twelve brilliant and strong gods that were referred to as the Olympians. The chief of the twelve Olympians was Zeus, the sky god.