ART 101 Chapter 5: Art of Ancient Greece
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Lots of rock, stone for building and sculpture. However, women were the priestess at the temples of female deities, they owned businesses, produced textiles and poetry, they were vital to greek economy. But primarily men were the measure of all things. A land ruled by men not by gods. Rationally tried to understand, ethics, morality, peace, war, they have symposia, men would sit on couches and drink and talk, contemplate the nature of life: we don"t have this in any earlier culture. They introduced theater that deals with fate, and behavior and destiny. They created the architecture that is common to much architecture in the west. Delphi considered apex of universe where apollo wrestled a dragon to return peace to the world. Greeks continually sought to change and improve existing artistic trends and fashion, effecting striking stylistic changes over the course of a few centuries.
