The spirit of the time is reflected in the art and architecture of the Hellenistic period. Art now more than ever has a secular character and focuses on topics from everyday life but also from the world of Dionysus and Aphrodite, with idyllic or dramatic content. In sculpture, the realism ...
Furthermore, while we focus on a narrow time period in human history, and geographically well-defined contexts within a specific region, the colourants included in our work range from low-processed earth pigments to the highly processed materials lead white and Egyptian blue, to the organic ...
I mean, right in the middle of the ‘90s, when Project Hindsight was first taking off, I’m sure there were a lot of people that were feeling like that was going to change everything, and that the whole community was going to be different in a very short period of time. AW: So t...
It is crucial to remember thatwe are dealing withtextsthat,for the most part,havegone through manyver-sions, revisions,recasting,and redaction, and have passed through manyhands, indeed perhaps circulatedorallyoveranextended period of time beforereachingthe stageinwhich we finallypossess them. Hence...
a reversible blanket or sheet.63The same idea appears on a relief from Kyzikos, Anatolia, with a weight hanging from the end of the cloth.64Such weights are a common addition in the Hellenistic period and, apart from ornamentation, may have been used to suggest lighter textiles that...
Building Resilience through Territorial Planning: Water Management Infrastructure and Settlement Design in the Coastal Wetlands of Northern Apulia (Salpia vetus-Salapia) from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity by Roberto Goffredo 1,* and Darian Marie Totten 2 1 Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici...
The Hellenistic Age (Era, Period) of Philosophy, from around 300 BCE to 200 CE, was a period of time when there were many private schools of philosophy in the Mediterranean cities and towns, and when Greek culture was a strong political, commercial, and intellectual force. The Koine Greek ...
Apparent in all cases is the delicate balance needed over time so that the lagoon’s ecosystem, its form, and interrelationship to land, seas, and rivers, might be maintained. The Salpi Lagoon, while not subject to progradation in the Holocene period [73], was rather influenced by its ...