학술논문
Greece, ancient
Document Type
Reference Entry
Author
Braun, Thomas, author; Simon, Christopher G., author; Gill, David W. J., author; Burford, Alison, author; Dinsmoor, Anastasia N., author; Dinsmoor jr, William B., author; Leventi, I., author; Roux, Georges, author; Lyttleton, Margaret, author; Howe, Thomas Noble, author; Coulton, J. J., author; Cooper, Frederick, author; Winter, F. E., author; Tsakirgis, Barbara, author; Haselberger, Lothar, author; Hellmann, Marie-Christine, author; Onians, John, author; Tomlinson, R. A., author; Birge, Darice, author; Hoepfner, Wolfram, author; Stupperich, Reinhard, author; Huber, Kalinka, author; Woodford, Susan, author; Stewart, Andrew F., author; Adam, Sheila, author; Mattusch, Carol C., author; Palagia, Olga, author; Carter, Jane Burr, author; Hurwit, Jeffrey M., author; Leftwich, Gregory V., author; Bartman, Elizabeth, author; Wilkins, Ann Thomas, author; Sparkes, B. A., author; Rasmussen, Tom, author; Noble, Joseph Veach, author; Johnston, Alan, author; Immerwahr, Henry R., author; Coldstream, Nicolas, author; Cook, Robert, author; Blomberg, Mary, author; Pipili, Maria, author; Moignard, Elizabeth, author; Hemelrijk, J. M., author; Oakley, John H., author; Leblond, Pascal, author; McPhee, Ian, author; Wehgartner, Irma, author; Rotroff, Susan I., author; Grummond, Nancy Thomson de, author; Graeve, V. von, author; Moreno, Paolo, author; Robertson, Martin, author; Uhlenbrock, Jaimee, author; Snodgrass, A. M., author; Carradice, Ian, author; Webb, Virginia, author; Steingräber, Stephan, author; Whitehouse, David, author; Higgins, Reynold, author; Kilian-Dirlmeier, Imma, author; Bailey, Donald M., author; Klein, Nancy L., author; Pearson, Anne, author; Bounia, Alexandra, author; Mannack, Thomas, author
Source
Oxford Art Online, 2003, ill.
Subject
Language
English
Abstract
Term referring to the lands and civilization of the ancient Greeks, a culture that represents a pinnacle of achievement in art and architecture, literature and philosophy. It had its origins in the Bronze Age cultures of the 2nd millennium bc and reached its peak between the 8th and 4th centuries bc with the flowering of the city states, especially Athens; it survived their loss of independence and continued to pervade the eastern Mediterranean long after the Roman Empire was established. It spread far beyond the Greek homeland (which was not quite as extensive as modern Greece), reaching Cyprus as early as c. 1200 bc and many parts of the Mediterranean and Black Sea littoral from the 8th century bc onwards (see fig.). Alexander’s conquests extended it across the Middle East to India. Western Europe is its heir, indirectly through Rome and directly through the revival of Greek studies in the Renaissance and the rediscovery of Greek art by travellers and archaeologists from the 17th century ...