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Lyric Poetry



Archaic Art and Architecture

Ceramic Ware
In colour-figure vase painting, nonliteral and ornamental motifs were applied with a slip that turned black during firing, while the background was left the color of the stiff. Vase painters supply soul forms by incising the slip or by adding white and over-embellished enhancements (mixtures of pigment and clay). In contrast, the decorative motifs on red-figure vases remained the color of the clay; the background, filled in with a slip, turned black. Figures could be articulated with glaze lines or dilute washes of glaze applied with a crash.

The red-figure technique was invented around 530 B.C. It gradually replaced the black-figure technique as innovators recognize the possibilities that came with drawing forms, rather than laboriously delineating them with incisions. The use of a brush in red-figure technique was better suited to the naturalistic delegation of anatomy, garments, and emotions.

(Began around the 7th century & lasted to the 5th century BC)
Kouros- An Achaean statue of a naked offspring man in a standing pose.

Koure- An Achaean statue of a fully dressed immature women (it was shameful for women to be seem nude.)

-The life size statues representing young men and women, were used as dedicatory offering to the gods or as grave markers.




-The Greeks adopted this practice of creating large-scale sculptures form the Egyptians & the come along East.

Philosophy

These philosophers all were all interested in explaining the original pump in which was the bases for everythings existence.

Thales (Possible founder of philosophy) He claimed that the earth is back up by water & that water was the ultimate & original nucleus of everything that exists.
-Lived during the 6th Century BC.
Anaximander- proposed the rival theory challenging Thales that the staple element of the universe was the indefinite or the infinite.

Anaximenes- proposed that the primordial substance...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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