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In ancient Greece, a genos (Greek: γένος, "race, stock, kin", [1] plural γένη genē) was a social group claiming common descent, referred to by a single name (see also Sanskrit "Gana"). Most gene were composed of noble families—Herodotus uses the term to denote noble families—and much of early Greek politics seems to have involved ...
Greek art, especially sculpture, continued to enjoy an enormous reputation, and studying and copying it was a large part of the training of artists, until the downfall of Academic art in the late 19th century. During this period, the actual known corpus of Greek art, and to a lesser extent architecture, has greatly expanded.
Khôra has no meaning or essence, no identity to fall back upon. She/it receives all without becoming anything, which is why she/it can become the subject of neither a philosopheme nor mytheme. She/it receives all without becoming anything, which is why she/it can become the subject of neither a philosopheme nor mytheme.
Modern Greek art, after the establishment of the Greek Kingdom, began to be developed around the time of Romanticism. Greek artists absorbed many elements from their European colleagues, resulting in the culmination of the distinctive style of Greek Romantic art, inspired by revolutionary ideals as well as the country's geography and history.
Knielauf (German: [ˈkniː.laʊ̯f]) is a term of art referring to a characteristic visual motif found in the art of Ancient Greece and the Etruscans of the Archaic Period, in which a person is portrayed as running or speeding forth with one knee nearly touching the ground.
Lacrimae rerum (Latin: [ˈlakrɪmae̯ ˈreːrũː] [1]) is the Latin phrase for "tears of things." It derives from Book I, line 462 of the Aeneid (c. 29–19 BC), by Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70–19 BC).
Understanding the meaning of that artwork requires historical context. Made by an Athenian artist at the peak of Athenian imperialism over the Greek world, after winning the Greco-Persian wars and taking control of the treasury of the Delian League.
Interest in Greek texts and their availability was scarce in the Latin West during the Early Middle Ages, but as traffic to the East increased, so did Western scholarship. Classical Greek philosophy consisted of various original works ranging from those from Ancient Greece (e.g. Aristotle ) to those Greco-Roman scholars in the classical Roman ...