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The Greek World Greek Art

Q 1. Consider the title of the first film, “The Measure of all things: Greek Art and the Human form,” which is also an ancient Greek quote from Protagoras, why do you think the human figure was central to Greek art? Discuss briefly the progression of how the Greeks represented the human form in sculpture over time

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The matter of death and permanence is of great obsession to the Greeks. Moreover, the proto-Greeks, who are also known as the Aegean Cultures that includes the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean, are very much disbursed with life. In addition to this, another predominant ideology of the Greeks is that they prioritize the potential and achievement humans. This leads to the development of liberty and the perfection of the realistic statures of the human figure in art. Due to this reason,