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- History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...The [[Venus of Willendorf]] (30,000 - 25,000 BC), from the area of [[Willendorf]], [[Austria]], is a w...
6: ... Stone was generally rare and had to be imported from other locations.
8: ...on the men. Votive stone sculptures of this type from 2700 BC were discovered at [[Tell Asmar]]. Man...
13: ..., so that it can have four legs visible if viewed from the side. The piece was excavated at [[Nimrud]...
16: ...is the [[Narmer Palette|Palette]] of King Narmer, from 3100 BC. The palette, which was used for mixin... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...t are now [[Albania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Egypt]], [[France]], [[Libya]], [[Romania]], [[Spain]], and [[U...
4: ...izations, while Greek-speaking, were so different from later Greek cultures that they should be classe...
14: [[Image:vcycladic.jpg|thumb|left|Marble statuette from the Cycladic islands, 3000 BC]]
15: ...th century BC is a "[[Greek Dark Ages|dark age]]" from which no primary texts, and only scant archaeol...
20: ..., where every island, valley and plain is cut off from its neighbours by the sea or mountain ranges. - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
7: Aeschylus frequently travelled to [[Sicily]], where the [[tyra...
11: ...is gravestone covers Aeschylus, son of Euphorion, from Athens, who died in fertile Gela.
26: **''[[Agamemnon (play)|Agamemnon]]''
32: In early [[1990]]s fragments of another Aeschylus play, which had been ...
42: ...[http://www.textkit.com/learn/ID/6/author_id/5/ ''Agamemnon''] - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
3: ...ut negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided [...
20: broke out afresh with Thebes the king twice invaded [[Boeotia]]...
29: ...ly to the [[battle of Leuctra]] and Sparta's fall from her position of supremacy. - Artemis (11271 bytes)
11: ...son who was able to kill him with a bough, picked from a tree in the forest.
23: Her name may come from ''diviana'' ("the shining one").
29: ...pg|right|thumb|250px|Closeup of statue of Artemis from Asia Minor. Image provided by [http://classroom...
37: ...idwives. She was sometimes known as [[Cynthia]], from her birthplace on [[Mount Cynthus]] on [[Delos]...
41: ...yia]], the goddess of childbirth, to prevent Leto from going into labor. The other gods forced Hera t... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
8: ...cal Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the [[ancient Near East]], such...
23: ... an altar to Zeus made not of stone, but of ash - from the accumulated remains of many centuries' wort...
25: ...could be found at any number of [[Greek temple]]s from [[Asia Minor]] to [[Sicily]]. Certain modes of ...
42: ...], and the Spartans even had a shrine to ''Zeus [[Agamemnon]]''.
48: ...]], where there is evidence of religious activity from the [[2nd millennium BC]] onward, centered arou...
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