Classical Greece
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Introduction In the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City in Rome there is a painting that Raphael, one of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance, completed around 1511. It depicts many individuals in Classical Greek dress in an ancient agora or market. At the centre are two individuals who are the clear focus of the…
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Introduction There is little doubt that the modern world owes a great deal to ancient Greek society. If we wander around a city centre in almost every major city in the western world today, we will pass court houses and government buildings which were constructed using Greek architectural methods. Every schoolchild today still studies numerous…