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首页| GRE and Application Area | Dou Dous space | Old Lui Space 当前分类：issueA Brief View on Western Culture更新时间：2008-9-5??来源：??点击数：3174?Greece?Philosophy and scienceSocrates; Plato; Aristotle Cynic; Epicureans; Skeptics; Stoics Protagoras; Pythagoras; Heracleitue; Democritus; Euclid; Archimides?LiteratureHomer: epic, Odyssey, IliadSappho: Lesbos, lyric?DramaAeschylus: Prometheus BoundSophocles: Oedipus the King?HistoryHerodotus: “Father of History”, wrote about the wars between Greeks and Persians.Thucydides?ArtsParthenon temple; Acropolis at Athens; Discuss Tower; Laocoon Group; Venus de Milo?Roman?Julius Caesar, CommentariesOctavius, Roman Empire; Constantinople; Goths; Turks;Cicero, Prose; Caesar, “Veni, Vidi, Vici”;The Pantheon; Pompeii; The Coliseums?Middle Age?After the Falling of Western Roman Empire; Age of FaithHuns – Germanic Tribes: Visigothis, Franks, Angles and Saxons, and Vandals; frequent war; the only organization seemed to unite Europe was Church; Church father; MonasticismFeudalism; Manor, Knighthood and Chivalry;Clergy; lords, and peasants; Pope, King; Inquisition; rites such as Baptized, marriage and other sacraments; redeemCrusades: Jerusalem, Palestine fell to Turkish Moslems; Arabs attack PilgrimsCharlemagne, Carolingian Renaissance;Frank and Germanic state reaching out to assimilate Roman Classical and Christianized Hebraic culture;Alfred the Great, EnglandScholasticism: St. Thomas Aquinas; to harmonize faith and reason;Bacon; Dante, the Divine Comedy Chaucer, Canterbury TalesArchitecture: Romanesque, Gothic?Renaissance and Reformation?ItalyCity-states ruled by princes of commerce; urban economy; Milan, Venice, Florence; families like Viscounti and Medici;The Rise of Humanism, promotion of wealth, admiration for the beauty of human body. Revive Greek culture, assertion the greatness of man. Emphasize present life and future instead of death and other world.Humanist: Petrarch, reintroduced Greek works; Boccaccio, Decameron?ArtBroke away from the d