Characteristics of ancient Greek art

Since the mythical era, Greece has attached great importance to music and art. During the "Aegean Culture" period from 3200 BC to 1200 BC, people learned from the tomb paintings at that time that people's musical life at that time was mostly singing, dancing and playing musical instruments.

After mankind entered the Greek era from Egypt and Mesopotamia, music began to be studied scientifically; Then, in 776 BC, when the first Olympic Games was held, the music along the coast of Greece and its subordinate Asia Minor (now Turkey) was particularly developed.

In architecture, the ancient Greek heritage can be considered as having two themes. One is the image model contained in Greek architecture. These models first include a series of decorative terms, sculptures and styles, which are more or less completely accepted or intermittently used and discarded. Even if they fall out of favor, we can't rashly conclude that they have completely disappeared from the database of western architects. The second aspect of Greek architecture left in the world is the Greek view on the essence of architecture.

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Introduction to ancient Greece

Ancient Greece refers to the southern Balkans, Aegean islands and the coast of Asia Minor. The Aegean culture from 3000 BC to 2000 BC is the forerunner of its history.

12 ago-the eighth century was Homer's time. The first 8-4th century was a classical era. After the first 338 years, it was ruled by Macedonia. In the second half of the 4th century, after Alexander's eastward expedition, it was the Hellenistic era. 146 years ago, it was incorporated into the Roman territory. Ancient Greek culture constitutes the main part of classical culture. There were works of literature, art, history, philosophy and science in the classical era, especially in Athens, which had a great influence on Rome, later Europe and the world culture.

The beginning of civilization

In 2000 BC (and other books about Aegean civilization began around 3000 BC), Aegean civilization originated in Crete (there are also some islands in the Greek mainland and Aegean Sea), and then the center of civilization moved to the Greek peninsula, and Mycenae civilization appeared. Crete civilization and Mycenae civilization are collectively called Aegean civilization, which lasted for 800 years and was the beginning of ancient Aegean civilization.

In the second half of the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquered the whole of Greece, and spread the Greek civilization to the East in the process of imperial expansion, which is called the Hellenistic Age. At this time, the ancient Greek literature was drawing to a close, and the center of Greek civilization gradually shifted from Athens to Alexandria, Egypt. The characteristics of Greek literature in this period are divorced from reality, attaching importance to rhetoric and pursuing sentimental sentiment. The more successful areas are new comedies and pastoral poems.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Ancient Greece