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The art of the ancient Greeks is often reffered to as "classical art." It is simple and geometric and placed a great emphasis on the beauty of the human body. They usually used their ideas of the ideal human or of the gods as the subject of their art, rather than actual people. The Greek people used thier artistic talent to create beautiful sculptures, vases, paintings, jewelry, and reliefs. Many of these pieces still exist today. Sculpting is probably what the Greeks are most know for, however. Many museums around the world house ancient Greek sculptures or copies of those sculptures.
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Doric
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Ancient Greece - Sparta - The British Museum - 0 views
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Together with Athens, Sparta is one of the best known city-states of ancient Greece,
Ancient Greece - The Games at Olympia - 0 views
Ancient Greece - Olympic Games - 0 views
Ancient greece - 0 views
Greek Achievements - 0 views
Greece Daily life - 1 views
Recognizing Ancient Greek Achievements - 1 views
Ancient Greece - History of Ancient Greek World, Time Line and Periods, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic. - 1 views
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Classical Period (500-336 BC)
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In this period Athens reached its greatest political and cultural heights: the full development of the democratic system of government under the Athenian statesman Pericles; the building of the Parthenon on the Acropolis; the creation of the tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides; and the founding of the philosophical schools of Socrates and Plato.
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Socrates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method,
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and is a type of pedagogy in which a series of questions is asked not only to draw individual answers, but also to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand.
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Socrates appears to have been a critic of democracy,[15] and some scholars interpret his trial as an expression of political infighting.[16] Claiming loyalty to his city, Socrates clashed with the current course of Athenian politics and society.[17] He praises Sparta, archrival to Athens, directly and indirectly in various dialogues. One of Socrates' purported offenses to the city was his position as a social and moral critic. Rather than upholding a status quo and accepting the development of what he perceived as immorality within his region, Socrates questioned the collective notion of "might makes right" that he felt was common in Greece during this period. Plato refers to Socrates as the "gadfly" of the state (as the gadfly stings the horse into action, so Socrates stung various Athenians), insofar as he irritated some people with considerations of justice and the pursuit of goodness.[18] His attempts to improve the Athenians' sense of justice may have been the cause of his execution.
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Ancient Greece - Athens - The British Museum - 0 views
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Male citizens in Athens could vote on all the decisions that affected the city and serve on juries. However, democracy was not open to everyone. Citizen women and children were not allowed to vote. Slaves and foreigners living in Athens (known as metics) were banned from participating in government.
Ancient Greece - Persian, Peloponnesian, Spartan, Greek Wars - 0 views
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Sparta thought that attacking the productive land of Attica, it would pressurize Athens to come forward to start the battle in a formal manner. Athens's army was definitely inferior to Sparta and allies. But this attack did not have much effect of Athens's because; their food supply mainly came from Egypt and Crimea.
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The Ionian Revolt: The start of First Persian War?
Ancient Greece - History, mythology, art, war, culture, society, and architecture. - 2 views
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Has some adds, but still informative.
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Facts about ancient Greece
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Information Resource on Ancient Greece, history, mythology, art and architecture, olympics, wars, culture and society, playwrights, philosophers, historians, geography and essays etc...
Ancient Greece - Geography of the Ancient Greek World and Aegean Map - 1 views
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s is the symbol of freedom, art, and democracy in the conscience of the civilized world
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Ancient Greece - History of Ancient Greek World, Time Line and Periods, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic. - 0 views
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divided into small city states, each of which consisted of a city and its surrounding countryside
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