about instruments used in hymns or songs. 3. Who were troubadours? What was their music like? Troubadours were traveling poet-musicians who traveled‚ singing and performing for the nobility. Their music was usually of them and an instrument. 4. Ionian‚ Dorian‚ Phyrgian‚ Lydian‚ Mixolydian‚ Aeolian & Locrian. Dorian mode in C begins and ends on D. 5. What is polyphonic music? How does it differ from monophonic music? Polyphonic- uses 2 or more independent melodies‚ Monophonic- uses 1 melody Critical
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are the same for all people in all‚ times and places? “All men desire to know” – Aristotle 2) Divisions of Ancient Philosophy - 6th century BCE to 529CE (pagan books were outlawed) - Pre-Socratics (they came before Socrates (Pythagoreans & Ionians) - Sophists and Socrates (sophists are people who wanted to be paid for their philosophy and Socrates did not agree with that) - Plato and Aristotle (great scientist also) - Hellenistic period (stoicism‚ it also has the sceptics) - Neo-Platonism
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classical art in western civilization. The Greeks were proud of their temples and other architecture‚ made to honor the gods and beautify the polis (city-state). Their famous architectural styles were the heavy Doric columns and the slender scrolled Ionian columns. The Parthenon‚ the Greek temple for the goddess Athena‚ is a impeccable example of symmetry and proportion. The sides of the Parthenon give an optical illusion of perfect balance on all sides. Their desire for balance in art and architecture
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standing quarrel originated. It traces back to 1000B.C; to both the cities ancestors. According to Herodotus‚ the ancestors were part of the prominent tribes of Ancient Greece: the Ionians‚ the Dorians‚ and the Aeolians. Spartans believed they descended from the Dorians‚ and the Athenians believed they descended from the Ionians .Both the tribes were very similar‚ in both politics and morals. After many years‚ the two tribes reached a crucial turning-point: they could either abolish slavery‚ and introduce
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blazing the territorial capital of Persia‚ Sardis. Be that as it may‚ they were constrained to pull back as a result of their overwhelming misfortunes. In view of this‚ Ruler Darius I‚ the Persian lord‚ pledged to blaze these two Greek locales. When the Ionian rebellion finished‚ Lord Darius started his arrangements in vanquishing Greece. He started his plot in 490 BC and effectively vanquished Eretria. He then sent his troops to Athens who arrived in a straight close to the Marathon‚ a town in Athens.
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League or confederation of Greek city-states under the leadership of Athens. The name is used to designate two distinct periods of alliance‚ the first 478–404 B.C.‚ the second 378–338 B.C. The first alliance was made between Athens and a number of Ionian states (chiefly maritime) for the purpose of prosecuting the war against Persia. All the members were given equal vote in a council established in the temple of Apollo at Delos‚ a politically neutral island‚ where the league’s treasury was kept. The
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(Persia) Cyrus the Great: established a massive Persian empire across the northern Middle East and into northwestern India by 550 B.C.E; successor state to Mesopotamian empires. Zoroastrianism: Animist religion hat saw material existence as battle between forces of good and evil; stressed the importance of moral choice; righteous lived on after death in “House of Song”; chief religion of Persian Empire. (Ancient Greece) Olympic Games: one of the pan-helenic rituals observed by all Greek
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The Propylaea of the Acropolis in Athens: The Project of Mnesicles In roughly 437 B.C.‚ 10 years after the beginning of the construction of the Acropolis and immediately after the Parthenon had been completed‚ Athens had began construction of a new site for their extremely revered sacred space known as the Acropolis‚ which was already home to great architectural blunders such as the Parthenon and Erechtheion. The entrance to this very commemorative site is referred to as the Propylaea‚ which is
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individuals in more than 100 localities. They‚ therefore‚ provide us with an approximate picture of the life of the bulk of Persian society at the time. They also reveal that Persian society was open to people with different ethnicities such as Ionians‚ Lydians‚ Lycians‚ Egyptians and Babylonians who worked in Persia on a temporary or permanent basis and had the same rights as Persians (complementing the multicultural ideology discussed above). According to Wiesehofer “If they contributed to the
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The geography of Ancient Greece had positive and negative effects on Ancient Greek Civilization. The mountains that cover Greece have acted as a barrier to Greece‚ and it separated Greece instead of uniting it. The Ionian Sea‚ Aegean Sea‚ Thracian Sea‚ Sea of Crete‚ Gulf of Corinth‚ and Mediterranean Sea surrounded Greece. They acted as a highway for Greece in order to reach other nations as efficiently as possible‚ as well as providing Greece with a source of income. Clearly‚ geography shaped Greek
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