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• Greek temple — Greek temples (Ancient Greek: polytonic|ὁ ναός , gr. ho naós dwelling , semantically distinct from Latin la. templum temple ) were structures built to house the cult statues within Greek sanctuaries. The temples themselves did usually not… …   Wikipedia

• Greek Church — • Details the history and various divisions of the church Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Greek Church     Greek Church     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Greek religion — Beliefs, rituals, and mythology of the ancient Greeks. Though the worship of the sky god Zeus began as early as the 2nd millennium BC, Greek religion in the established sense began с 750 BC and lasted for over a thousand years, extending its… …   Universalium

• Ancient Greek sculpture — Athena in the workshop of a sculptor working on a marble horse, Attic red figure kylix, 480 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 2650) Ancient Greek sculpture is the sculpture of Ancient Greece. Modern scholarship identifies three major …   Wikipedia

• ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction       the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …   Universalium

• Indo-Greek Kingdom — Infobox Former Country native name = conventional long name = Indo Greek Kingdom common name = Indo Greek Kingdom continent = Asia region = country = era = Antiquity status = event start = year start = 180 BC date start = event1 = date event1 =… …   Wikipedia

• ANCIENT GREEK ARCHITECTURE —    Ancient Greek architecture is widely revered for its formal elements that have come to be called classical. These include a canon of proportion based on the human body, symmetry and harmony in terms of the relationship between all parts and… …   Historical Dictionary of Architecture

• Veneration of Images —     Veneration of Images     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Veneration of Images     I. IMAGES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT     The First Commandment would seem absolutely to forbid the making of any kind of representation of men, animals, or even plants:… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Lost-wax casting — A model of an apple in wax …   Wikipedia

• painting, Western — ▪ art Introduction       history of Western painting from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the present.       Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment (but see also drawing for discussion of depictions in …   Universalium

• Hermes — For other uses, see Hermes (disambiguation). Hermes So called “Logios Hermes” (Hermes,Orator). Marble, Roman copy from the late 1st century CE early 2nd century CE after a Greek original of the 5th …   Wikipedia