Greek chorus

The High and Late classical art styles do have differences from one another but they also have similarities. During the High classical period sculptures were created based on achieving perfect symmetry and the “perfect” human body. One of the most famous statues that show us an example of the High Classical art is the Doryphoros. This statue was created by the Polykleitos who was trying to portray the perfect man. “His aim was to impose order on human movement to make it “beautiful” to “perfect”…

His myth is so distinctive as he is the only known God to have a mortal parent, who now even resides with him on Mt. Olympus. It is crucial we understand the deity as it explains the reasoning behind the ceremonies and gatherings conducted by the Greek people, which I will later explain in detail. There are many slightly different variations of this story but the following I have found to be most famous, and personally the most engaging. Dionysus was born from Zeus, God of the sky, and Semele,…

“The Greeks saw slavery as part of the natural order of life” (Nardo 37). The slaves were generally treated well but some were treated badly. Some of the most trusted slaves received some small wages. If they got enough money they could but their freedom for their family. Female slaves did different types of work compared to the male slaves. They helped the master’s wife with…

The Ancient Romans got new ideas from different groups of people. The Romans borrowed ideas from the Greeks and added their own, unique style to the architecture they borrowed. Actually, other countries were inspired by the Romans’ unique style that they added. The arches, in Rome, were very useful devices; they could bear weight evenly and were very strong. The arch was borrowed by the Etruscans. The arches soon lead to aqueducts and dome ceilings. The aqueducts, or water bridges brought…

Cyrus the Great was born in 580 BC and lived until the year of 529 BC. He was the first Achaemenid Emperor; he was the founder of Persia one of the largest empires of that time. He created this empire by uniting the two original Iranian tribes – the Medes and the Persians. Even though he was known as a great conquer he was mainly known for his tolerance and magnanimous attitude towards those whom he had conquered. He was one of the first to use not only Persian governors to control the places…

The Greek portrays the human form naturally and realistically, they slowly develop standardized representations of the human form sculptor to reflect the aesthetic preferences of the period in which they are created. In the classical period, Greek artists create naturalistic representations of the human form. Focusing particularly on the ideal male body, sculptors carved figures that reflected their concern with the principles of harmony, order, symmetry and proportions. Polyclitus a Greek…

Rats. No Greeks” “We have not come to destroy, but to build.” (Meltzer) Dr. Chris Petrolas, President of the Greek Community of Chicago said this while addressing the subject of Greek Immigrants being persecuted in America. Greeks were forced to leave because of war, and an extreme economic crisis. Some also came to escape the Greek Orthodox Church’s laws. In this paper I will discuss Greek immigrant’s background, their experience of immigrating, and their experience in America. Greeks had a…

The statue of Aphrodite and the statues in the Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai are similar in that these works of art seem to have the ability to react in a sort of way to their admirers. For example, the statue of Aphrodite had the ability to seduce and drive a man to madness to the point where he “hurled himself over a cliff or down into the waves of the sea and to have vanished utterly.” Similarly, when Theodoris from Himerius the chartularius, says the words “Maximian was the builder and…

the same things. For example, they both had some form of art happening within all of them, but the Greeks wanted perfection whereas the Romans want real life people. The Greeks statues were of perfect people. The Romans statutes contained all the flaws of real people. The ancient Greek civilizations were colonized. They established some colonies around the coastline of the Mediterranean sea. Greeks had a lot of different kinds of governments, because there were many different city-states in…

Thermopylae is the story of the Greeks fighting the Persians. The saga begins with the Persian army advancing close to the Greeks territory. Fearing the worst, the Greeks hold a conference to discuss their options. Interestingly, some of the Greeks where adamant about holding their ground rather than retreating despite the foes they faced. Around the time of the conference, a Persian spy lurked in the distance. Watching the Greeks, the spy looked with astonishment at what lay before him. The…