Doric Greek

What do you think is the comparison between the Athenian agora and the Roman? Have you ever asked your self about what each has in common and how they are being used in a different way? Well, athenian Agora is an alternative name for a place in Greece. Also the Roman Forum. Both Athenian Agora and Roman Forum are located in the middle of their city Agora and Forum are linked to Greece and Roman cities, they both refer to a place where people are gathered together. Agora is used for commercial…

theories have been borne about the origin of the Greek Geometric art. One theory unravels it as an expansion of the Mycenaean art, another theory agrees that it had a popular background origin. While others argue that Geometric art was settled due to Doric effects, it still has not given a suitable solution to the setback. Geometric style of ancient Greek art was primarily of vase painting. It began around 900 BC and denotes the last purely Mycenaean-Greek art form that initiated before the…

How Ancient Greek Fashion Has Affected Fashion Today Fashion in Ancient Greece was very simple and practical but it had a great influence on fashion today. A simple fabric was worn in multiple different ways for different occasions. A typical outfit in Ancient Greece was a large rectangle of fabric such as wool, linen, and even silk for the royal and the wealthy. The fabric was draped around one's body and secured at the shoulder with pins or brooches. This was called a tunic and it varied in…

Besides the Greeks not only worshipping gods, they also value humanity just as much. Their gods are idealized as beautiful beings but they looked like actual humans and had their own weaknesses. Their “idealized” human form represented high intellectual and moral goals and their architecture was based on mathematical systems of proportion similar to the ones applied to the human form. The pride in their own intellectual and physical achievements is clearly evident in the art that the Greeks…

Greek sculpture was diversity. Every period had different style. As we can see, they were improved by time to time. In Hellenistic period, they were already developed. Those figures already had movement and emotion. For instance, Statue of a Gaulish Chieftain (Roman copy of a bronze statue from Pergamon, Turkey ca. 230-220 BCE), also called Ludovisi Gaul. According to Boardman, this figure was “thought to be a copy of a bronze original which formed part of a monument set up in Pergamum in the…

usual in Doric buildings. Inside, the cella was both wider and shorter than usual--shorter…

From the very famous Greek temples is the temple of victory- Nike Apteros also called as “the temple of Athena”, Athena as the Goddess of victory. The temple was considered as the symbol of victory of the Greeks on the Persians. The temple is located at the Southwest corner of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, and is considered the smallest temple out there, constructed by the same architect who built the Parthenon- Kallikrates. Apteros Nike originally means wing-less victory that’s why the…

Arkansas is a historic townhouse modeled after the Parthenon which was built in the Classical Greek period. It is specifically located on 1112 South Main Street. Its construction date is uncertain, but is placed between 1870 and 1910 based on architectural evidence. It is a two story wood house. The main facade is covered by a two story porch with ionic columns and a single story porch on the side with doric columns. The main entrance is between sidelight windows and is set in a sunken paneled…

Set atop the city of Athens sits an enigmatic piece of Athenian history. The Parthenon has long held one of the most historically perplexing friezes in ancient Greece. Temples were a common form of worship in ancient Greek society and often held many art pieces in honor of the god or goddess that the temple was dedicated to. These artifacts left behind from ancient societies hold key insight into what society was like and what was culturally important in ancient Greece. Joan B. Connelly may hold…

Ancient Greece Legacy is knowledge of information that is handed down from one generation to another without written instructions. A legacy is a tradition inherited. A gift from the past. The Greece way of life have greatly impacted the Western World. Greek have influence our lives in several ways such as law, literature, Philosophy, sculptures and architecture. The law in Ancient Greece had no court system at first making it impossible to prosecute anyone for a criminal offense. Since there…