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Garay Joseph A. Garay Link used:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization#Art Art is basically the only evidence of Minoan existence, and not even all of the Minoan art pieces survived, because not all of their paintings were on walls or were sculptures, because most of those have survived, but the art that was on materials like wood, and or an early type of paper, have not survived as well as other art. Instead of painting their walls with dry frescos, like the Egyptians did, the Minoans used a “wet” painting method so as to bind well with the wall. Their painting was mostly of fluid moments of life and nature. What we can derive from this art work is that the Minoan society was a “leisure” society, because they didn’t have as many enemies as other cities of that time period did, so they were able to spend more time create works of art, no one has been able to come up with a reason that the inhbitants of crete were able to live peacefully with the other cities, but some say that since they were an island they werent worried about fighting on their land, and if anyone came from the sea they would know. Thats why I believe they had great works of art, it is because they weren't worried about attacks, and they were able to paint about life then about fightring, and that is what makes the minoans from crete different from other cities in greece, like sparta, whose art work was mainly about war. New link: http://ancient-greece.org/art/minoan-art.html

Battle of Marathon Links: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/marathon.htm Links: http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-marathon-greeks-versus-the-persians.htm Links: http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/battleswarsto1000/p/marathon.htm The Battle of Marathon is one of the most famous battles. Marathon is also one of the first recorded battles in history. The battle took place in september of 490 B.C. Persia sent an armada force of 600 ships which is approximitaly 20,000 infantry and calvary. In response Athens mobilized 10,000 warriors to defend them. Even though extremely out numbered, a greek General urged the Athenians to attack the Persians at a dead run, even though the front ranks were destroyed the flanks were able to slaughter the trapped persians. I think that the Persians were a little suprised that the Greeks would be so bold, and just charge them like they did, and I think that, that is the reason for the Persian loss, because they were so shocked that they were unable to recover, and so they lost. The Persians had the greastest casulties, they lost an estimated 6,400 men, while the greeks only lost an estimated 192 men.

Art Greek art is very varied, and and artictic. The History of spanned for about 5000 years, and was influenced by wesetern civilization. Greek art was mainly four forms: archeticture, sculpture, painting, and painted pottery. The main art was usually about the past, like past wars anything in the past that was big and significant, and alot of art was about their gods, because the whole society was based on religion. I believe that art was an easier way of recording information down, because it was easier, and more beautiful. There are three main periods of greek art: the archaic, the classical, or the Helenistic, the changes in period are usually started when something big happens, for example the death of Alexander the Great is nelieved the divider for the classical art period, and the Helestic art period, and the Persians wars were said to be the dividers for Archaic, and classical periods. Greek art has influenced everything in the world not just in their time, but in modern time as well, and example would be the statue of Prometheus, in Rockerfeller Plaza, New York. The Pictures above a pictures that show that show the varying artistic abilities of the Greeks. Pimary source: This is a piece of a greek wall, the wall depicts Apollo, Poseidon, and Athena, like most wall pieces Greek wall are was mostly about their gods. The wall is, a tan color, it was probably made of marble, and pieces are missing from it, because most Greek art work is eitherbroken or fractured. The picture didnt skow so you can just click link 2 and it will take you right there. They other art piece is of Athena alone, it is also made out of marble, and is said to have stood on the acropolis in athens, and it is also fractured.

1. Statue of Athena[online image]available:[|**atheism.about.com/.../ blgrk_athena07.htm**] 2. Picture of an oringinal greek art piece,[online image]available: [|**www.britannica.com/ EBchecked/topic-art/471736...**]

The Greek Gods: The ancient Greeks, and romans, belived in gods (plural), they used these gods as explanations for natural phenomana, such as hurricanes, war, love, and some mythical beasts. Some examples are: [|Poseiden], they belived that poseiden was the ruler of the sea, and to be able to make a safe voyage acroos the sea they would pray to him, and make sacrifices to him, the romans and ancient greeks had the same gods, but under different names for example, instead of Zues, the Romans renamed him [|Jupiter].