Dana Greenfield Dr. Benton Art History 102 10 December 2014 Youth in Sculpture Marble sculpture resurfaced as one of the primary forms of media in Greek art around the middle of the seventh century B.C.E.. The advent of monumental sculpture was a huge development. “The Marble Statue of a Kouros (Youth)” or “The Metropolitan Kouros” towers with immense strength at six feet four inches. This Greek kouros‚ a term given to free standing sculpture representing the male youth‚ is one of the earliest
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first Olympic champion listed in the records was one Coroebus of Elis‚ a cook‚ who won the sprint race in 776 BC‚ it is generally accepted that the Games were probably at least 500 years old at that time. According to one legend they were founded by Heracles‚ son of Alcmene. The Games were held at Olympia in the city-state of Elis‚ on a track about 32 metres (35 yards) wide. The racing length was one stade‚ a distance of about 192 metres (210 yards) which was one length of the track. At the meeting
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preparing a siege on the city of Potidea on the peninsula of Chalcidice. This implies that Alexanders father Phillip was the leader of a very powerful army. In his childhood and throughout his life he found inspiration in the Heroic Age‚ revering both Heracles and Achilles. He became absorbed in winning renown and glory for himself by performing noble deeds and surpassing the feats of the gods and the mythical heroes. Alexander was concerned when Phillip captured a city or won a great victory because he
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Back to the Future A prophecy can be defined as a statement that something will happen in the future (“Prophecy”). Prophecies played a major role in many ancient Greek lives. They were such a pivotal aspect of that writers incorporated them into their works‚ which can be seen in Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Not only did it affect literary life‚ but it also affected the lives of actual people. King Croesus of Lydia and Alexander the Great of Greece were two of many people heavily impacted by these
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What are the common archetypes in ancient mythologies? I chose this topic because I have a large interest in past culture‚ and I would like to know more about the stories of heroes passed down through many generations. These archetypes help historians understand the lifestyle of past civilizations‚ such as Greek‚ Norse‚ and Egyptian. When people include an archetypal character in a piece of literature‚ “it helps to get the message of a work across to the reader‚ by appealing to specific universal
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Mythology is the study of myths‚ and throughout the ages there have been plenty of myths‚ from Egyptian mythology to Greek to Norse to new age religion. Mythology helps to explain our world around us. Usually from mythology comes religions‚ and all religions have gods. Each culture has a religion and each religion has gods that explain every aspect of life in the mortal world. One of the best known gods from all mythology is the Greek god Zeus. Zeus has a long history full of devious plots‚ vicious
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The Theogony of Hesoid A dactylic hexameter poem of slightly over 1‚000 lines‚ Theogony traces the genealogy and history of the Greek gods. The poet Hesiod begins his song with a description of the activities of the nine Muses in their mountain home on Mt. Helicon. He tells how they sing and celebrate the gods of the Olympian pantheon; the Titans who came before them; and the oldest of the gods Chaos‚ Chronos‚ Gaia‚ Uranus‚ Oceanus‚ Night‚ and others (Theogony‚ 2004). The Muses‚ Hesiod tells
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Previous to the Hellenistic world as was known‚ everything had been under the shadow of Athens which catered all sources before that to them. It was not until after the rise of the Macedonians‚ most importantly Alexander‚ that would bring about a change in the literature that characterized the world. Theocritus‚ whose experience and relationships enable him to complete his works‚ displays this shift in his series of bucolic poetry entitled Idylls. Within these almost thirty poems we are introduced
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In 360 B.C.‚ where an ancient Greek philosopher Plato mentioned about the cataclysmic destruction of an ancient civilization dated 9000 B.C. It is the Atlantis‚ an island of great civilization‚ larger the Libya and Asia combined together which sunk into the depth of the sea in just one night. The question is whether this is just a myth or it really existed? The story was taken from Plato’s dialogues‚ Timaeus and Cristias‚ which the latter was never completed due to unknown reason and thus had created
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The Peloponnesian League: an alliance of Peloponnesian cities with Sparta as the leading city. Sparta had a separate alliance with each city. ‘…we believe that the allies met as a council and could in fact overrule Sparta in a military decision. Thus Sparta‚ it would appear‚ relied on it command of influence and respect rather than outright military power in order to have its voice heard within its own band of most important allies.’ Welch‚ p. 169 Paul Cartledge: his work in the 1970s involved
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