Ancient Greek Beliefs

Ancient Greek Beliefs

The ancient Greeks are famous for several things. In 776 BCE they invented the first Olympics games. (52) Hellenic polytheists, or commonly known as Greek Mythology, was very poplar religion that helped shaped their foundation of the Greeks. From that foundation, the famous Alexander the Great had resin and concerned most of the middle east. However, nothing is more noticeable then their art. From their sculptures to their paintings, the feature that stand out to me as the most Greek, is their art. Since the fourth century art has been an important part of the Greeks culture. The only way we know of this is because of the "art we found in and round hillside burial chambers" in the Cyclades Islands. (41) There were no written records of the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Between the years 1900 to 1375 BCE the Minoans, a Greek culture form Crete, had painted frescoes. Frescoes are like wall murals and they decorate the palaces Knossos. (42) One of the most preserved Frescoes, is the Bull Leaping. It depicts two women and a man toying with a chagrin bull. One woman is holding the bull's horns while the man leaps over the bull, and the other woman is standing cheering him on. The bull was a symbolically associated with male virility and strength, so this leaping of the bull was a perhaps part of a rite of passage. (43) This was a very important part of their culture and the bull in the painting was very realistic. Another example of realism painting that the Greeks did was their hydria paintings. A Hydria is a water jug used to carry and sore water. Greek painters, such as Priam Painter, would paint scenes of the daily lives of the people on these hydrias. (57) On Priam Painters hydria, he painted a scene of women getting water at the fountain house. He wanted the painting to look as real as possible, so he used white pigment in his slip to make the women white. "The compositions strong vertical and horizontal framework, with its Doric columns, is softened by the rounded contours of the women's bodies and the vases they carry." (57) Another realism painter is Euphronius who did not paint on hydrias, but painted Kraters, which hold wine instead. Euphronius most known painting is the

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