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Ancient Greek Art: The Birthplace of Western Aesthetics
A survey of Greek sculpture, vase painting and architecture from the Geometric to the Hellenistic period, and how ideas of ideal form took shape.
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Greek Art, Nature and Harmony
Greek art and ideas about nature, proportion and balance.
The Ancient Greek Concept of the Four Elements: A Guide to the Natural World
How Empedocles proposed earth, air, fire and water, how Aristotle added aether, and how the four elements theory shaped later medicine and chemistry.
The Ancient Greek Concept of the Four Seasons: A Guide to the Natural World
How the Greeks reckoned seasons through farming, star risings, festivals and Hippocratic ideas of climate, and why they did not use one fixed scheme.
The Ancient Greek Concept of the Golden Mean: A Guide to Balance and Harmony
Aristotle's doctrine of the mean treats virtue as a balance between excess and deficiency. This guide explains it and how it differs from the golden ratio.
The Ancient Greek Concept of the Golden Ratio: A Guide to Beauty and Harmony
What Euclid defined as extreme and mean ratio, how it works, and why the claim that the Parthenon was deliberately built to the golden ratio is unproven.
The Mysterious Case of the Antikythera Mechanism
The Antikythera Mechanism is a geared bronze astronomical calculator found in a wreck off Greece in 1900-1901. Here is what imaging has shown about its dials.
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