The History
The history of greece canbe trace back to stone Age huntes later come early farmers and the civilizations of the Minoan and Mycenaen Kings.This was followed by a period of wars and invassions know as the Dark Ages in about 1100 BC, a people called the porians invaded from the north and spread down the west coast.In the period from 500-336 BC Greece was divided into small city states and of which consisted of a city and it's sorrounding countryside.
A part of the Greece life.
The Greece life was dominated by leligion and so it is not surprising that the temples of ancient Greece were the biggest and most beutiful they also had a political purpose as they were often duilt to celebrate civic power and pried, or offer thanksgiving to the in patron deity of a city for success in was.The greek developed three architectural systems, called orders, each with their own distintive proportionand deteling.The Greek are:Doric, Lonic and corinthan.
THE THREE PILLARS OF THE GREEK, DORIC, LONIC AND CORINTHAN
The statu of the Greek that is,Doric< is style is rather study and its top (the Capital),is plain,tis style was ised in the mainiand the colonis in souther Haly & Sicily.The piller of Lunic is thiner and more elegant.Its capital is deorated with scrolllike desing(avolute),this style was pound in easter Greece and the Islands.The corinthia style is seldom used in the Greek world, but oftan seen on Roma temples.Its capital is very elaborate and decorated with acanthusleaves.
ATHENS
Athens is the symebol of freebom, Art,democracy:in the conscience of the avilized world. The capital of greece took It's name from the goddess Athena, the goddess of wisdom and knowlege.
SPARA
Sparta a beautiful town near the river Evrotas, located in the centre of The Peloponnese in southern Greece, is the capital of the prefecture of Lakonia. SPARTA ( known in Greek as Sparti) has a history which dates back to the Neolithic period, at least 3,000 years before Christ.
Even in its most prosperous days, it was merely a group of five villages with simple houses and a few public buildings. The passes leading into the valley of the Evr�tas were easily defended, and Sparta had no walls until the end of the 4th century BC. The city itself was destroyed by the Goths under their king, Alaric I, in 396 AD.