Ancient Greece was divided into over 100 city-states called poleis and religion played an integral part in each polis. ... During the unification of the Italian peninsula, the Romans successfully conquered the Etruscans and the surrounding peoples. As soon as Rome conquered these areas they granted the people Roman citizenship and this greatly helped expand the Roman military. ... Lastly, Rome successfully took over all of the Hellenistic cities, which enormously expanded Roman territory. ... Religion in the Roman republic can be characterized as a synthesis of three sources of beliefs: In...

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One can see how artists of the time often drew from Byzantine, Greek and Roman influence in a variety of mediums, whether it be sculpture, painting, or calligraphy. ... Although all of these new elements were introduced, one can still see how Byzantine influence plays a role in this fresco with the rocky setting resembling that of a Byzantine mural. ... Sculpture during the Proto Renaissance period took a turn toward being influenced primarily by Roman sculpture. Frederick II, King of Sicily from 1197-1250, had an admiration for classical art, and therefore hindered a revival of Roman sculp...

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He explains through the Aeneid that the underlying purpose for the Trojan War and the life of Aeneas has finally been fulfilled with the reign of Augustus in which the emperor managed to reunite the Roman Empire and bring peace to Italy after a period of constant civil war. ... Anchises shows Aeneas the glorious future of Rome and its leaders all the way up to the reign of Augustus who is fated to bring about the height of the Roman Empire. ... In attempting to pose as a women Mnesilochus invents various lies that he feels the women should relate to, such as the way married women get "a ...

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It was a time when the philosophies of the ancient Greek and Romans were rediscovered, which took place after the Middle Ages. Many of the philosophies of the Middle Ages were no longer accepted, and the Renaissance brought about a revamped way of thinking and learning, based on the Greek and Roman culture. ... After Giotto there was a architect that came along in the early 1500's that rediscovered the classical Greco-Roman style and the rediscovery of artificial perspective, which allows a painter to paint something three-dimensional on a two-dimensional plane (Walker 78). ... Just like ...

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It was all the more broad than the prior restoration and had suggestions past the field of writing, above all in building design, the visual expressions, and the recovery of Roman law. ... Greek had been a key piece of the Roman instructive framework; any informed Roman would have known it and possessed the capacity to quote from its most celebrated creators and speakers, for example, Demosthenes, Aristophanes, or Lucian. ... Case in point, Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428 "1497) established the Roman Academy, whose parts took a dynamic part in antiquarianism and the investigation of the ag...

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The period is more or less considered as playing out what had been set up in the later Middle Ages. ... Beyond that, a period known as Mannerism came into play--although still technically part of the Renaissance, Mannerism marked a time when elegance was key. ... The humanistic movement began during the early Italian Renaissance with the rediscovery of the writings of classical Greeks and Romans, which were not only models of literary style, but considered to be guides to the understanding of life. ... Brunelleschi was the first Renaissance architect to revive the Roman style of arc...

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With this concept, artists and sculptors started to revive the Greco-Roman influences and reflect it on the male nude figure with Renaissance quality. ... From the 14th century to the middle of the 15th century, artists were progressing away from medieval models towards to Greco-Roman proportion concepts. ... He played a significant part in shaping this period by delivering an insight into the visual thought process and extending it sculpture. ... In Italy, the Greek and Roman antiquity statuary influenced the Renaissance age. ...

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This was a revival of the ancient Roman forms, such as the column and round arch, the tunnel vault, and the great domes. ... These tales formed the basis of many European literary works, such as Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. ...

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The Florence Cathedral Baptistery played a huge role in the artistic contributions to the Italian Renaissance. ... The Italian Renaissance now had another "invention" of great importance that would inspire more mathematical illusions, even though perspective had been around since the ancient Greeks and Romans. ...

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It can play a role in burial rites, serve as an article for use by the dead in the afterlife, and celebrate the life and accomplishments of the dead, whether as part of kinship-centered practices of ancestor veneration or as a publicly directed dynastic display. ... There are the giant tombs and temples of the Roman emperors. ... Roman temples emphasized the front of the building, which consisted of a portico with columns, which is basically a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls...

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As Cavour once said, "We must be the partner of France in the great game that sooner or later must be played in Europe." ... Romanticism still played a role in keeping alive a national spirit, but the crux of the question was to achieve by diplomacy not the republican slogan of the masses. ... Discuss the part played by nationalism in the Italian Unification movement. ...

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