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These bronse pieces are from the late Hellenistic or Early Imperial period. They are Greek or Roman. These were used to adourn a monumental nymphaeum.
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This is a carved Marble Cinerary Chest with Lid. It is of Roman creation and ifs from the Imperial period. There is an inscription that tranilates into English as Spirits of the Dead. It was crreated during the Flavian Dynasty. The theme is funeral art.
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"Amorous Scene
Tile Mosaic, by Centocelle. It is housed in Vienna Austria at the Museum of art and History. Sexuality was a popular theme in art during this period. -
Erotic Snece
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3rd Century Greek Theater This is an example of 3rd Century A.D. Greek Theater. "The oldest existing spaces to be classified as “theatrical areas” are in four Minoan palaces on the island of Crete (Encyclopedia Brittanica). " Theaters like this one were used to share poetry and Greek Tragedies.
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Rotunda of St George
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<ahref='http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/164220/Dionysiaca' >Dionysiaca - Greek Litterature</a> Written by the Greek Poet Nonnus this is an example of Nonliturgical poetry. "Dionysiaca was composed in Homeric language and metre, but it reads as an extended panegyric on Dionysus rather than as an epic. Nonnus is plausibly credited with a paraphrase (Encyclopedia Britannica). "
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Jewish LiteratureIs one type of liturgical composition or religious poem used for religious service. Byzantine emperor Justinian banned religion and this type of poem was used to get around the ban.
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History of The Franks This is an example of Latin Litterature.
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Church of Santa Maria An example of Lombard Architecture. This church is known for the frescoes inside.
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Romanesque Culture Music from the Year 1000
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Beowulf - British Literary Board "Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest. More than 3,000 lines long, Beowulf relates the exploits of its eponymous hero, and his successive battles with a monster, named Grendel, with Grendel’s revengeful mother, and with a dragon which was guarding a hoard of treasure (Beowulf)."
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Icon of the Heavenly Ladder of St John KlimakosThis is a painting from the Byzantine art period. It is rumored this painting had something to do with the design of the classic board game Shutes & Ladders.
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Gregorian Chant "The name is often taken as synonymous with plain chant, comprising not only the Church music of the early Middle Ages, but also later compositions (elaborate melodies for the Ordinary of the Mass, sequences, etc.) written in a similar style down to the sixteenth century and even in modern times (Gregorian Chant)."
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Buddha Maitreya
From the Northern Wie Dynasty in China. "This sculpture, which is the largest early gilt bronze statue known from China, remains one of the best examples of the use of a distinctive style of drapery in Chinese art from about 460 to 490 (Heilbrunn). " -
Hripsime Church 100_2588_ripsime "Hripsime church is situated 20 km west from Yerevan. This universally recognized masterpiece of Christian architecture was consecrated in 618 by Catholicos Komitas I. At the very beginning of the 4th century there stood a small Christian structure here, which had appeared on the site of a destroyed pagan temple (In the)."
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Arabian Nights "The first known reference to the Nights is a 9th-century fragment. It is next mentioned in 947 by al-Masʿūdī in a discussion of legendary stories from Iran, India, and Greece, as the Persian Hazār afsāna, “A Thousand Tales,” (Encyclopedia Britannica)
