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**Art, Literature, Music**

-became more realistic (Bugh, 172) //- emphasis shifted from religious and naturalistic themes towards more dramatic human expression, psychological and spiritual preoccupation, and theatrical settings. ////From: //[|www.greeklandscapes.com/greece/athens_museum_hellenistic.html]  //- Famous sculptures include: the Boy Jockey, Aphrodite, Pan, and Eros, Venus de Milo, the Laocoon, and the Winged Victory of Samothrace (http://www.greeklandscapes.com/greece/athens_museum_hellenistic.html) // - art- greatest in the cities in the eastern Mediterranean-Alexandria, Antioch, and Pergamon. (Ptolemaic, Seleucid, and Attalid dynasties) (http://www.turkishodyssey.com/turkey/culture/arts.htm) - Pottery- very classical in appearance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_of_ancient_Greece) - mosaics became popular (Bugh, 177) - polychromatic jewelry- pendants dipped in white or blue enamel (Bugh, 178) - open hoop earrings first appear- 330 B.C. (Bugh, 180) **Literature** -Poetry flourished. (http://student.britannica.com/comptons/article-201760/Greek-literature) -Main types of poetry include: -Epic poetry- long narrative poems which involved heroic deeds, Greek mythology -Lyric poetry- short poems that express personal feelings, used to be sung and accompanied by a lyre (thus the name lyric) -Elegy- a poem of mourning (Bugh, 90) - Famous Poets include: -Theokritos (310-250B.C.) created pastoral poetry, wrote mimes, poetic plays, lyric poetry, epics (Bugh, 202) -Kallimachos created a type of poem called an elegy, wrote poems for special occasions, wrote epics (Bugh, 196) -Apollonios of Rhodes studied under Kallimachos, wrote the famous “Argonautica” as well as poems on the foundation of cities (Bugh, 200) -Many epics similar to Homer’s //The Odyssey were written // (Bugh, 190)
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The Rise of the Hellenistic World