Ancient Greek sculpture

Growing up, I definitely had a warped view on Greek Life. I presumed being in a sorority would be how the media portrayed it – crazy, dramatic, and dangerous. However, coming to Babson, I saw a different story. I observed a community of strong women supporting each other through encouragement and shared purposes. Every sorority woman I met my first semester of freshman year raved about their experiences and passion for their sisterhood. When I ended my first semester, I decided that I would be…

The Golden Eagle In the beginning of our times, two powerful celestial one was called “Ezio” and the other “Crono”, both wanted to create something that can admire their power and greatness, so they start making a kind of base where they can locate their people, the bases were called “planets”. They create a lot of planets in different places in the space, but just two of them were able to locate the civilization; one was made by Crono which he gave the name of “Mars” and the other was made by…

popular topic in the media today is Greek Life at college campuses. Almost every college across the United States has at least a few fraternities or sororities that end up in the news in some shape or form. Most of the time, the reason they receive attention is due to someone dying at a house, a girl being raped by a brother, or it’s revealed that a fraternity or sorority has been hazing their pledges. However, is this negative publicity all there is to college Greek Life? While some…

works for the Olympian gods. The game takes its inspiration from Greek Mythology revolving around ancient Greece. Kratos is instructed by goddess Athena to seek vengeance from God of War, Ares, who befooled Kratos into murdering his own wife and child. While mostly game adaptations are usually loosely based on facts and myths, God of War, sets its roots in Greek mythology and it is in most ways accurate when it comes to the actual Greek mythological…

and 12b in the British Museum, the Mycenaean Collection provides an amazing insight into the Greek Bronze Age, The Heroic Age, and Greek Mythology legends, especially the epics written by Homer. The collection features many artifacts of red and black painted pottery, bronzes from the Geometric Period, bronze figurines, and numerous artifacts that depict the Bronze age and how the Mycenaean people used Greek Mythology to decorate many objects and create incredible works of art that are still…

clearly see what the authors are describing here. A sculpture of a Myron, Discobolos, (a discus thrower) was in the act of throwing the disk but his face had no emotion what so ever (90). In the sculpture of Laocoon, we can see the agony in his facial features as he and his sons are tangled with a serpent (113). Hellenistic artists allowed themselves to be different in a vast variety involving strong contrasts of light and shade and their sculptures tended to be frozen in motion like taking a…

City and Sanctuary", and Olga Palagia’s chapter of “Architectural Sculpture” and it is apparent that there was a drastic change in the form of architecture over a few centuries in Greek civilization. In Yeroulanon’s chapter there an emphasis on the Doric and Ionic on the evolution of the architecture in terms of the creation of different types of buildings. Palagia’s chapter was more orientated towards the variations in the sculptures with respect to the Doric and Ionic order over time. In…

It is a common error to accredit most of their borrowed inspiration from the Greeks when it was equally borrowed from the widely forgotten Etruscans. Their inspiration is rather a hybrid of Greek and Etruscan influence. The first Roman temples were largely modeled after Etruscan style, especially the early temple to Jupiter in Rome, the Capitolium. The temple rested on a high platform…

Venus de Milo is easily one of the worlds most famous works of art from the ancient world, damaged and full of history Venus de Milo is a wondrous mystery. it was rediscovered on the 8th of April in 1820 by a peasant on the Greek island of Melos while he was digging up rubble for his farm. The statue Venus de Milo was mutilated, in two main pieces; the peasant who found Venus de milo knew that he had uncovered a masterpiece and quickly sought out officials to aid in safely retrieving the statue.…

Some women, mostly but not excluding Greek goddess and heroines, were shown great power and were viewed as being beautiful. The women who were scene as very powerful or were worshiped for such influences mostly consisted of the Greek goddess’s and heroines from Greek mythology. This did not exclude outside women who lived during that time for some of them also possessed greater power then women of past generations. Greek goddess’s and heroines were often praised, not only for the power they…