Pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over...
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overview of and topical guide to ancient Greece: Ancient Greece – Towns of ancient Greece List of ancient Greek cities Regions of ancient Greece Peloponnese...
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The pottery of ancient Greece has a long history and the form of Greek vase shapes has had a continuous evolution from Minoan pottery down to the Hellenistic...
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Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which...
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Italian is a designation for ancient Greek pottery fabricated in Magna Graecia largely during the 4th century BC. The fact that Greek Southern Italy produced...
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restoration of ancient Greek pottery is a sub-section of the broader topic of conservation and restoration of ceramic objects. Ancient Greek pottery is one of the...
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Kylix (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
In the pottery of ancient Greece, a kylix (/ˈkaɪlɪks/ KY-liks, /ˈkɪlɪks/ KIL-iks; Ancient Greek: κύλιξ, pl. κύλικες; also spelled cylix; pl.: kylikes /ˈkaɪlɪkiːz/...
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The Ancient World Ancient Furniture Pottery of Ancient Greece Arts of Caucasian Albania The Byzantine Empire Macedonian art The Antique and Medieval Asian...
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Vase (category Pottery shapes)
of ancient Greece "vase-painting" is the traditional term covering the famous fine painted pottery, often with many figures in scenes from Greek mythology...
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pederasty, involving an adult man with an adolescent boy (marriages in Ancient Greece between men and women were also age structured, with men in their thirties...
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Face jug (redirect from List of American makers of face jugs)
A face jug is a jug pottery that depicts a face. There are examples in the pottery of ancient Greece, and that of Pre-Columbian America. Early European...
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sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek...
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first signs of the particular artistic character that defines ancient Greek architecture are to be seen in the pottery of the Dorian Greeks from the 10th...
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Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology...
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The economy of ancient Greece was defined largely by the region's dependence on imported goods. As a result of the poor quality of Greece's soil, agricultural...
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in ancient Greece Black-figure pottery Geometric art Greek terracotta figurines Minoan pottery National Archaeological Museum of Athens Pottery of ancient...
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Mycenaean pottery is the pottery tradition associated with the Mycenaean period in Ancient Greece. It encompassed a variety of styles and forms including...
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Black-figure pottery painting (also known as black-figure style or black-figure ceramic; Ancient Greek: μελανόμορφα, romanized: melanómorpha) is one of the styles...
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Pederasty in ancient Greece was a socially acknowledged relationship between an older male (the erastes) and a younger male (the eromenos) usually in his...
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Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond....
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The pottery of ancient Cyprus starts during the Neolithic period. Throughout the ages, Cypriot ceramics demonstrate many connections with cultures from...
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Meander (art) (redirect from Greek key pattern)
elements in Greek and Roman art. In ancient Greece they appear in many architectural friezes, and in bands on the pottery of ancient Greece from the Geometric...
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Red-figure pottery (Ancient Greek: ἐρυθρόμορφα, romanized: erythrómorpha) is a style of ancient Greek pottery in which the background of the pottery is painted...
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the first time. The use of looms can also be seen being depicted on ancient Greek pottery.[page needed] Clothing in ancient Greece has been found to be quite...
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much longer course or a time trial. Early records of races are evident on pottery from ancient Greece, which depicted running men vying for first place...
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A theatrical culture flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC. At its centre was the city-state of Athens, which became a significant cultural, political...
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ecclesia or ekklesia (Greek: ἐκκλησία) was the assembly of the citizens in city-states of ancient Greece. The ekklesia of ancient Athens is particularly...
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Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...
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Hellenistic art (redirect from Hellenistic pottery)
Hellenistic Greece Hellenistic period Hellenistic sculpture Art in ancient Greece Pottery of Ancient Greece Ancient Greek vase painting Greek sculpture...
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Another reason for Greek colonisation was the expansion of influence. As ancient Greeks in the Peloponnese and Ionia developed a sense of identity, they had...
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