anichent athens art and archeticture
the anicient agora of athens was a marketplace ofr social commercial and religious events, the temple of zeus at olympia was dedacitaced to the king of gods zeus, segesta temple was the poltical temple for the elymian people, the delphi treasury was built to protect valuables such as gold and silver, the parthenon was a temple dedicated to athena was made of marble there are 2 statues on the inside of the temple and one on the outside both statues are gone but the temple is still there, acroplis means the higest point of the town, arch of hadrian monumental gateway across a ancient road, the temple athena nike was made to worship the greek godess of athens, the greek parliament place for kings otto and george1,ancient agora marked place for social commercial and religious events, theatre of dionysys where songs and dances where performed to honor dionysys, panathenaic stadium was a place where males compeded in events similar to track and field, the libary of hadrian had lecture halls, studiesm and a library, art was a big deal in greece but not alot of it survived through the years, theatre was also popular among the greeks one person could play the role of many charcters, only the highclass and the goverment usually went to the plays, architecture with the greeks had 3 designs 1. doric wass plain and sturdy 2 ionic is thinner and more decorated and corinthian was more decorated
the greek military rebounded forming the delian league in the city of delos after the persian war and keep trying to push the persians out of greece, the pelopennisian war started as a result of the league making athens to powerful and they went up against sparta and its allies this ended when the spartans captured athens, the grecian warriors roles where to protect their country and fought for their own glory and dyeing in war was the best way to die if you where a worrior you had to fight when called upon, the greek fleet was made of 300 ships in wich 200 where antens when the leader of the greeks had a war with the spartans and persians to hold the pass of thermoypale, leonidas was a 5th century spartan military king,
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