The ancient statues and pottery of the Golden Stone Age of Greece were much advanced in spectacular ways. The true facts of Zeus's main reason for his statue. The great styles of the Kouros and the Kore. The story of The Blinding of Polphemus, along with the story of Cyclops. The Dori and Ioni...
The biggest achievement that came from Athens in the Golden age was said to be the Parthenon. ... The Parthenon was not only a temple, but a Shrine to Athena and a victory monument over the battle Marathon to showing their strength and riches in the Golden Age. ...
From his writings, "Changing Times Bring on a Moral Order,"" one can conclude that Greece was submerged in a dark "Iron Age- where there was, at this time, little or no justice at all. ... Hesiod saw the history of humankind as one of progressive degeneration "from an ideal golden age in the faraway past to the present harsh age of "black iron."" ... This time of hardships increased the need for a moral order to emerge Greece out of this "Iron Age."" ... By merely establishing a moral order, Greece was on its way out of the lawless Dark Age. ...
The ancient Greeks had a huge impact on western civilization. They have made major contributions to the world. They have done this through politics/democracy, the arts, literature, philosophy, science/math and war/military. To this day we see many of their practices still in us. Many countries ...
Again it was Schliemann, who started digging here in 1876 and uncovered what he called King Agamemnon's palace and his famous gold mask, supposedly artifacts from the Mycenaean Age. ... Not much is known about women in bronze-age Mycenaean culture, but it is thought they were not as well regarded as in ancient Minoan society. ... By the Homeric Age Zeus became superior to Hera, undoubtedly showing women's declining status. ... After the Mycenae Era, Greece went through a "dark ages.... The next period is known as the Archaic Age, circa 800-500 b.c.e. ...
VOCABULARY Archaeology: the scientific study of ancient people and cultures principally revealed through excavation. Cromlech: a circle of megaliths. Henge: a Neolithic monument, characterized by a circular ground plan. Used for rituals and marking astronomical events. Megalith: a stone of great size used in the construction of a prehistoric structure. ...
