WRITE A SHORT CRITIQUE ON CLASSICAL GREEK ART WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EITHER GREEK POTTERY OR GREEK SCULPTURE. Behind the art of the golden age, lay a long period of experimentation. Art historians trace Greek art far back from the 7th to the 1st century, noting that an early date foreign models, especially Cretan, Asian & Egyptian, exercised a strong influence. ... human body & was remarkably lifelike. Their main aim was creating the idealized human body without any flaw. Their figures are dignified, quiet & perfectly proportioned. (A history of Western Society) The most representative scul...

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... Poseidon, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, and others, but as in the Near East when their mythology relates the repossession of female deities by male deities, the same process occurred in Greece at this time. The continual antagonism between Zeus ... inferior to the city dwellers that also worked the fields, but lived in the cities. Politically, the Greek world went through various forms of government structure from hereditary monarchies, to oligarchies, to dictatorships and democracies. Not all city-states arrived at the democratic stage like Athens. Sparta ... Greek authors,...

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