Architecture of ancient Greece

Even though both men, played a huge role in ancient discovery, I believe Sir Arthur Evans discoveries were the most beneficial and helped us learn the most about the Aegean civilization. Through his findings, historians have been able to uncover more about these ancient civilizations. I choose Sir Arthur Evans for a couple of reasons. First, he discovered the the ancient capital of Knossos by digging up a palace. This finding allowed him to name the civilization Minoan. This was the…

wasn’t even at its strongest. This victory is not dissimilar too that of Alexander the Greats Battle with Darius III at Gaugamela, where 47,000 Macedonians defeated the Persian army, which amassed to 200,000. In both cases we see two “heroes” from the ancient world, who have each gone down as one of the greatest general’s and strategists of all time. However one of course conquered the world and the other didn’t even conquer Rome. Scipio’s fellow general Sempronius soon came with reinforcements,…

reduced to a town of some 10,000 inhabitants, significant mainly for its role in Ottoman maritime networks. Flourishing in the 19th century as a major centre of the booming cotton industry, the modern city had come to bear little in common with the ancient…

The statehouse is built in the Greek Revival style which is a design type based on the buildings of Ancient Greece. This was popular in the US from 1820 through the early 1860s. It’s a masonry building consisting of Columbus limestone on the exterior which was taken from a quarry on the banks of the Scioto River. I chose to describe the architectural elements of the back side of the statehouse. Looking at the portico at the center of the building, the top contains the pediment space. The sima…

in every Greek city. Everywhere on the slopes of the hills there are stone theaters - the most notable were built in Delphi, Dodona, Oropos, Priene, Pergamum and Syracuse. A universal distribution of the Ionic order became popular in the temple architecture, especially in Asia Minor. The reconstruction of the temple of Artemis in Ephesus continued, a magnificent temple of Apollo was built in Didyma near Miletus, the construction of which lasted almost 200 years. The Temple of Apollo is a…

In Paschale’s The Art of the Byzantine Empire the description of Constantinople is permeated with praise for the architecture and beauty of the work done during Emperor Constantine's reign. All the works mentioned are praised for their beauty and what they do for the City of Constantinople. Some of the additions that Cyril references were done for the use of the Emperor, from the massive Hippodrome to the imperial loge. One of Constantine's first projects for the city of Constantinople was…

backward in quadrennial units (Miller 2004, 20). The main concern with trying to figure out the origin date is if it is accuracy for the emergence of Greek athletics. Scholars have looked for the origin in older cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt as Greece had large, influential contacts in the Bronze Age (Miller 2004, 20) .The art of both Mesopotamia and Egypt show evidence of sporting activities, but the sense that these competitions are not the…

Our City of Athens has been struggling for some time now to become a stronger city. At this time we are facing a battle just as difficult as the recent battles we have faced. As an assembly, we granted the metics who fought with Thrasybulus the right to citizenship. Those metics showed loyalty, strength, and passion to give Athens a chance to get back to the city we once were. Those characteristics shown by the metics are similar characteristics the slaves who also fought showed as well. I…

The Peloponnesian War started when Sparta the leader of the Peloponnesian league and the largest land power in the region started to become concerned with the rise of Athens powers. Athens was a power in their own right; they were the largest sea power and was the leader of the Delian league. Neither Sparta nor Athens could afford to accept supremacy from the other country. Power can be a dangerous thing, those who have it don’t like letting it go, and those who don’t have it will do anything…

CONSCLUSION A skillful warrior can achieve his own invulnerability, but he can never bring about the enemy’s vulnerability. (Sun Tzu) This campaign exposed numerous operational, tactical and strategic mistakes that the Athenians made; which ultimately lead to them losing this war. One of the main reasons the Athenians failed, was because they did not have the right resources nor executed the right strategy; this was mainly due to lack of planning and a lack of willingness to adjust. Maybe if…