Greek Art Research Paper

Introduction

I believe that the Greek people were the most successful ancient civilization. The Greeks had the best art and architecture in ancient times, that is still copied today.The Greeks invented democracy. Greek literature was very important as they introduced greek mythology, documented scientific discoveries, math and history to the world.

Art

The Greeks art was the most successful art in ancient times. They were known for the golden age of art but their art wasn't always perfect and graceful. There were three stages of greek art the Cycladic, Archaic, and The Hellenistic. The Cycladic style is the oldest art we in ancient Greece and the first, it started c.2000 BC. They used them as burial offerings, people would give them

They made horizontal planes with a very slight upward U-shape and columns that were fatter in the middle than at the ends. Without these innovations, the buildings would appear to sag; with them, they looked flawless and majestic. The most famous piece of greek architecture is the Parthenon. The Parthenon sits on top of a mountain in the middle of athens which is called the acropolis. Inside the Parthenon is a chryselephantine statue of athena. Chryselephantine means an gold and ivory

The first was the ekklesia, or Assembly, the sovereign governing body of Athens. Any member of the demos–any one of those 40,000 adult male citizens–was welcome to attend the meetings of the ekklesia, which were held 40 times per year in a hillside auditorium west of the Acropolis called the Pnyx. (Only about 5,000 men attended each session of the Assembly; the rest were serving in the army or navy or working to support their families.) At the meetings, the ekklesia made decisions about war and foreign policy, wrote and revised laws and approved or condemned the conduct of public officials. (Ostracism, in which a citizen could be expelled from the Athenian city-state for 10 years, was among the powers of the ekklesia.) The group made decisions by simple majority