Greek and Roman art gave Western art its classical foundation in form, line, structure, and meaning. ... The stage can be adjusted to the environment it needed to be in for the performance. ... They also have places in the back of the stage for actors and actresses to stand by and change. ... The main action is all taken within the stage which Greeks called it the orchestra. ... The Greek and Roman art sets the foundation of the base form of classical art. ...

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Greek and Roman art gave Western art its classical foundation in form, line, structure, and meaning. ... The stage can be adjusted to the environment it needed to be in for the performance. ... They also have places in the back of the stage for actors and actresses to stand by and change. ... The main action is all taken within the stage which Greeks called it the orchestra. ... The Greek and Roman art sets the foundation of the base form of classical art. ...

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He also did Rome an injustice by setting the stage for future tyrants to abuse their inherited powers of privilege. ... "As Augustus laid the foundation of the Imperial monarchy, an inattentive observer might have accepted the fiction that the republic had indeed been temporarily restored. ...

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However, over time the Romans found it was damaging to the foundation as well as to the flooring. ... Comedies, tragedies, pantomimes and rude folk plays were staged in the theatres; in the arena of the Colosseum, gladiators fought in pairs or with wild animals to satisfy the blood lust of the crowd; and hundreds of thousands of race-goers packed the stands of the Circus Maximus to enjoy the thrills of chariot racing. ...

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The construction was similar to opus incertum but instead of irregular shaped pieces they used pyramid shaped pieces with a square foundation set diagonally and wedged into the concrete. ... Ten years later, after the Corinth's journey, ideas about building a permanent structure were made a little more favorable and the stage was built more enduring and there was no scenery. ...

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Roman Law was the law that was in effect throughout the age of antiquity in the City of Rome and later in the Roman Empire. When Roman rule over Europe came to an end, Roman law was largely--though not completely--forgotten. (Ancient Rome, Compton's 96) The earliest code of Roman Law was the Law of ...

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The accomplishments of the Carolingian age set the stage for the following traditional restoration, known as the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, a term coined by Charles Homer Haskins (1870 "1937) to portray the blooming of established learning amid this period. ... As humanists in Petrarch's ring perused more aged creators they found that a full energy about their writing obliged a careful foundation in the writing and society of old Greece. ... The approach of printing is likely in charge of the changeless foundation of formality as an essential piece of Western human progress ...

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Originally, the Colosseum was used as a giant pool to stage mock naval battles since military life was so important in Rome. However, the was becan to damage the foundation and flooring and it then became a sports facility for events such as gladiator battles. ...

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The once strong Roman empire was nearing its last stages of an actual city; However, as military strengths began to suffer the republic began to fall too far from its peak that it was now impossible to regain Rome's position. ...

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During this time, man's knowledge and understanding of the nature around him was still in its more primate stage, where predictability of natural events was left solely in the hands of the Gods. ...

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