Both Greece and ancient Roman Empire had climates similar enough latitudinally for both to grow wine and olives. However, their terrains were quite different. Theancient Greek city-stateswere separated from each other by hilly countryside and all were near the water. Rome was inland, on one sid...
Winged Victory of Samothrace, 3rd or 2nd Century BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. Photo byMarie-Lan Nguyenvia Wikimedia Commons (public domain). A 200 BCE marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess Nike, theWinged Victory of Samothraceis considered today as the greatest masterpiece of H...
Greek mythology is known today primarily from Greek literature and representations on visual media dating from the Geometric period from c. 900 BC to c. 800 BC onward.[5]:200In fact, literary and archaeological sources integrate, sometimes mutually supportive and sometimes in conflict; however...
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Via Wiki: Capella is the brightest star in the constellation of Auriga (upper left). Cazimi comes from the Arabic word word “kaṣmīmī ” which in turn is thought to have evolved from the Greek “kardia” meaning “in the heart” – or in this context translating as, “in the heart...
The Plague of Athens depicted inPlague in an Ancient City, Michiel Sweerts, c. 1652–1654 /Wikimedia Commons Thucydides indicates that this plague was extraordinary in that “a pestilence of such extent and mortality was nowhere remembered.” ...
Temple of Aphrodite, Aphrodisias, Caria (Wikimedia Commons) Two aspects of Aphrodite indicate the different loves she represented to the Greeks. On the one hand, you had AphroditeUraniawho symbolized spiritual or celestial love. On the other hand, there was AphroditePandemos. This love went beyon...
via Wikimedia Commons The Greeks communicated spaces and shapes through an emphasis on proportionality, as heavily illustrated by Greek mathematician Pythagoras. And by that, the style of Greek buildings was extensively based on dimensions, scale, and their relationship to one another. As for ...
Recreation and present state of theT emple of Rome and Augustus on the Acropolis (Wikimedia Commons) The only new, Roman addition to the Acropolis was that of the circular Temple of Rome and Augustus which was located about twenty-three meters from the Parthenon on the east side. This was...
Temple of Hera II at Paestum (sometimes called the Temple of Neptune) (credit: BERTHOLD WERNER/CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)/VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS) The new findings "shed fresh light on the history of the powerfulGreekcolony," he said, adding that the co...