Greco

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• In greco-roman architecture it is a horizontal Band, often decorated with relief sculpture , Between the architrave and cornice of a Building.
• Julius Caesar was a strong leader for the Romans who changed the course of the history of the Greco - Roman world decisively and irreversibly.
• Crane covered the Greco - Turkish War in 1897 and the Spanish - American War in 1898 as a news correspondent.
• From these it is clear that Sassanian genethlialogy was essentially an imitation of the Hellenistic (without, however, all the philosophical overtones) onto which were grafted some Indian features, such as the use of the ninths (navāṃśas) and the Řaivite interpretations of the Greco-Egyptian Decans; it specialized in various forms of continuous astrology. ASTROLOGY
• El Greco's Jeronimo de Cevallos, with its slightly blurred focus and vigorous brushwork, anticipates techniques to be used by Velazquez in his paintings of dwarfs and buffoons.
• The best pieces include three paintings by El Greco.
• Ptolemy II took Egypt and set up his own sort of Greco-Egyptian kingdom there, sometimes you'll hear us talk about the Syrian Empire or the Greco Syrian Empire,or simply the Greek Empire.
• At the Venice Biennale he encounters "jet-lagged, hectic miens," while El Greco is called "a pictorial rhapsode of militant piety. An Eye on the Tremors
• In architecture, neoclassicism was the dominant style in Europe during 1750s - 1850s, marked by the imitation of Greco-Roman forms.
• Considered the first work of history in Western literature, the Histories tells the story of the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Archive 2009-03-01