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THE ART OF ANCIENT GREECE, c. 800–1st CENTURY B.C.
Homeric epics written down (c. 800 B.C.)
Greek alphabet; Delphic oracle; Olympian gods
Battle of Marathon: Persian defeat (490 B.C.)
Philosophy: Plato; Socrates; Aristotle
Theater: Aeschylos; Sophokles; Euripides; Aristophanes
"Man is the measure of all things"
Vase painting; mosaics; monumental sculpture
Orders of architecture: Doric; Ionic; Corinthian
Periklean Athens (c. 450–400 B.C.)
       The Parthenon; canon of Polykleitos
       Herodotos ("father of history")
Peloponnesian War: Sparta defeats Athens
Alexander the Great dies (323 B.C.)
Hellenistic period





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