Greece, ancient construction

Man appears to have an innate appreciation of the principles of symmetry. Every civilization, from ancient Egypt to classical Greece, from the Arabian empires to the American Indians, has produced symmetrical ornaments and friezes, and has intuitively discovered the mathematical principles underlying the construction of periodic patterns. It was not until the 19th and 20th centuries that group theory was rigorously formulated by mathematicians. Today, the fundamental importance of symmetry to the exact sciences is fully appreciated. 

Our notion of romantic love is a fantasy, a cultural construction. It has its original small seeds in ancient Greece, and then the notion reemerged and was fully created by the Troubadours, who developed it over the course of 200 years, starting at the end of the eleventh century. The idea of love received further elaboration and development in the Renaissance, wrangled a home run out of Shakespeare, and now love is here to stay. 

Andent Monuments Under Seismic Actions Modeling and Analysis, Fig. 9 Photo of a single standing and a fallen column of the Olympieion of Athens, Greece, showing the mnlti-dnim construction of ancient columns... 

Characterization of mortars used for the construction of Saithidai Heroon Podium (1st century AD) in ancient Messene, Peloponnesus, Greece, Materials Characterization, Vol. 58, No. 11-12, pp. 1229-1239, ISSN 1044-5803... 

Gay Studies has appropriated Athenian male prostitution as a significant element in the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece (Halperin 1995 3), and has used those erotics as an important basis for the social construction of homosexuality (Mohr 1992 222). 

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