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The true colors of classical Greek antiquity
smithsonianmag.com — Colored statues? To us, classical antiquity means white marble. Not so to the Greeks, who thought of their gods in living color and portrayed them that way too. The temples that housed them were in color, also, like mighty stage sets. And for centuries people who should have known better pretended that color scarcely mattered.
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- rearlgrant, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Excellent Digg!
- hiPpymIck, on 07/06/2008, -1/+4re the bit at the beginning about the Elgin Marbles..
the Greeks have recently built a museum next to the Acropolis
it will house (in an exact reproduction of the interior of the Acropolis) the original friezes that remain in Greece
..and it will have copies of the ones in London
- so youd be able to see the whole thing in one.. tho i dont think theyll be colored
its due to open in sept this year
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7381738.stm - WarpDigger1492, on 07/06/2008, -1/+1Why did they make it five pages?
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