The Hellenistic period in Greek history was a wonder of sculpting, architecture, and other arts. Explore Hellenistic art and the people that made it.
A MOTIF OF PARROTS IN DIONYSIAN CONTEXTS ON SELECTED EXAMPLES OF HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN MOSAICSdoi:10.12797/SAAC.27.2023.27.07PARROTSMOSAICS (Art)HAPPINESSROMANSThis paper provides an overview of the mosaics in which parrots are represented as a motive accompanying Dionysian them...
Sphinx, mythological creature with a lion’s body and a human head, an important image in Egyptian and Greek art and legend. The earliest and most famous example in art is the colossal recumbent Great Sphinx at Giza, Egypt, dating from the reign of King
The hyphen’s lineage is traced to a punctuation mark created by Dionysius Thrax, a Classical Greek grammarian who flourished in the late Hellenistic period when literary criticism and philological scholarship were at their peak. His main treatise, The Art of Grammar, was the first systematic treat...
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It came from Tarentum, Italy and was created during the first century BCE, or late Hellenistic period of Greek art (The Walters). There is no known artist. This paper will include an in depth description of the Procession of Twelve Deities as a whole and figure by figure. It will also...
: Compare archaic (def. 4), Hellenistic (def. 5). of or relating to a style of literature and art characterized by conformity to established treatments, taste, or critical standards, and by attention to form with the general effect of regularity, simplicity, balance, proportion, and ...
Despite the fact thatthis satellite tell was badly damaged by Hellenistic storage pits and by a large pit dug by the villagers inmodern times, one almost complete house (labelled ‘Northern House’), and parts of two others, wereunearthed.The ‘Northern House’ had a rectangular plan (10.70 ...
The barrel drum was possibly known in Hellenistic times, for it appears in the Greco-Indian culture of Kushan. A shallow drum is depicted on a Greco-Scythian metal gorytus, or bow-and-arrow case, of the 4th century bce, but there is no evidence of its having been known to Greece. ...