| Ancient Greek pottery is frequently
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| | correct answer. The Egyptians, Greeks and
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| signed, sometimes by the potter or the
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| | peoples of the Near East all had stories
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| master of the pottery, but only
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| | about such a creature. The Egyptian
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| occasionally by the painter. Hundreds of
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| | Sphinx usually had the head of a man and
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| painters are however, identifiable by
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| | the body, legs, feet and tail of a lion.
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| their artistic personalities, where their
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| | The Greek Sphinx usually had the head of
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| signatures haven't survived they are
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| | a woman and according to Greek
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| named for their subject choices, as "the
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| | literature, lived on a high rock outside
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| Achilles Painter", by the potter they
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| | of the city of Thebes. The Great Sphinx
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| worked for, such as the late Archaic
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| | that stands at Giza near the Great
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| "Kleophrades Painter", or even by their
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| | Pyramid in Egypt is 240 feet long and
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| modern locations, such as the late
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| | approximately 66 feet high and is one of
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| Archaic "Berlin Painter". Corinth once
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| | the most famous monuments in the world.
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| made pottery decorated without any paint.
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| | The ancient Greeks were the firs to
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| Instead a watery clay mixture was used.
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| | develop a democratic way of life. More
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| When the pot was fired in a kiln, the
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| | than 200 years age, they started the idea
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| areas painted with clay mixture turned
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| | that every citizen should take an active
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| black. Unpainted areas turned a light
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| | part in Government, historians regard
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| brown or reddish brown color, depending
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| | them as the founder of western
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| on the type of clay.
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| | civilization. Greek civilization was far
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| For 200 years the Corinthians sold their
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| | more advanced than any other historians
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| pottery all over the Greek world, and
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| | were. Orators, philosophers, and poets
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| Corinth became a wealthy and busy trading
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| | were Greek. The Greeks were the first to
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| center. In metalworking and pottery, the
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| | study botany, geometry, medicine, physic
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| work was very hard. The potters could be
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| | and zoology on a scientific basic. They
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| found in a part of Athens known as the
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| | also held the first athletic games.
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| Kerameikos, or Potters' Quarter. They
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| | The ancient Greeks called themselves
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| acquired their clay from the quarries at
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| | Hellenes, and their land Hellas. They
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| Cape Colias, six miles from the city.
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| | never formed a national government, but a
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| They mixed it with ochre or vermilion to
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| | common culture, religious, and language
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| color it yellow or red, and turned it on
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| | united them. Greeks called anyone whose
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| simple wheels. The molded articles were
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| | active language was Greek a Hellene, even
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| then dried in the sun and specialized
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| | if he did not live in Greece, and anyone
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| painters decorated them by hand. The
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| | not speaking Greek a barbarian. Greek
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| Sphinx, an imaginary creature of ancient
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| | civilization developed on a rocky,
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| myths, is most remembered for the riddle
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| | mountainous peninsula that juts onto the
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| given to her by the Muses, "What creature
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| | Mediterranean Sea from southeastern
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| has only once voice walks sometimes on
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| | Europe, and on the Islands in the nearby
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| four, sometimes on three, and sometimes
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| | sea. The people of each plain and island
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| on two, and is weakest when it walks on
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| | formed an independent community called a
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| four? "Man!" She often sat perched on
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| | city-state. No city-state had enough good
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| Mount Phicium, asking each passing person
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| | land to support its entire people.
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| a riddle. If they answered her wrong, she
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| | Communities quarreled with one another
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| would eat them. It is also believed that
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| | instead of uniting. Athens and Sparta
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| The Sphinx leaped to her death when she
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| | became the most famous city-states.
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| asked Oedipus a riddle and was given the
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