Thursday, March 17, 2016

Chapter 4

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In the 8th century, there was a great war between Greeks and Trojans. Many poets wrote of these great battles and a describing a time long before a golden age of larger than life heroes.  In the 3000 BC early Cycladic sculptors create marble figurines for placement in graves to accompany the dead into afterlife. Cycladic art was abundantly available in the superb quarries of Aegean Islands especially on Naxos sculptors.  Many Cycladic art, represent nude women was the meaning of life beauty and art.





The pre- historic aegean was known as the Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea.

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