Laocoön and his Sons - Article Index

Encyclopedia - 1506: Encyclopedia - 1506
1506 - Events. January 21 - Pope Julius II founds the Swiss Guard Second outbreak of the sweating sickness in England Leonardo da Vinc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art In Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia - Art In Ancient Greece
The art of ancient Greece has exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries from ancient times until the present, part...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art In Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Art In Ancient Greece - Sculpture
Sculpture is by far the most important surviving form of Ancient Greek art, although only a small fragment of Greek sculptural output has...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marble Sculpture: Encyclopedia Ii - Marble Sculpture - Material Origin And Qualities
Marble is deposited by precipitation from water. The original source will be limestone, which is dissolved in water by the weak carbonic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achilles Tatius: Encyclopedia Ii - Achilles Tatius - Leucippe And Cleitophon
Achilles' romance, The Adventures of Leucippe and Cleitophon (in Greek τα κατα Λευκιππην και Kλειτoφων) has came...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achilles Tatius: Encyclopedia Ii - Achilles Tatius - Influence
Leucippe and Clitophon is the key source for The Story of Hysmine and Hysminias, by the 12th century AD Greek author Eustathius Macrembol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achilles Tatius: Encyclopedia Ii - Achilles Tatius - The Romance's Modern Editions
The large number of existing manuscripts attests the novel's popularity. A part of it was first printed in a Latin translation by Annibal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achilles Tatius: Encyclopedia Ii - Achilles Tatius - Life And Minor Works
Very little is known of the author; and the little which is known from the sources, represented by Photius and the Suda, are often mislea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achilles Tatius: Encyclopedia Ii - Achilles Tatius - Analysis
The first appraisal of this work comes from Photius' Bibliotheca, where we find: "the diction and composition are excellent, the style di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art In Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Art In Ancient Greece - Coin Design
Coins were invented in Lydia in the 7th century, but they were first extensively used by the Greeks, and the Greeks set the canon of coin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art In Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Art In Ancient Greece - Periods
The art of Ancient Greece is usually divided stylistically into three periods: the Archaic, the Classical and the Hellenistic. As noted a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art In Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Art In Ancient Greece - Definition
Art historians generally define Ancient Greek art as the art produced in the Greek-speaking world from about 1000 BC to about 100 BC. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art In Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Art In Ancient Greece - Survivals
Ancient Greek art has survived most successfully in the forms of sculpture and architecture, as well as in such minor arts as coin design...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art In Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Art In Ancient Greece - Pottery
The Ancient Greeks made pottery for everyday use, not for display; the trophies won at games, such as the Panathenaic amphorae (wine deca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art In Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Art In Ancient Greece - Architecture
Architecture (building executed to an aesthetically considered design) was extinct in Greece from the end of the Mycenaean period (about ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marble Sculpture: Encyclopedia Ii - Marble Sculpture - Tools
The Italian terms for the basic carving tools of stone sculpture are given here, and where possible the English terms have been included....   » Read the article