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...that The Greek Miracle is an exercise in political propaganda, and has to embrace stereotypes that no classicist today would accept without deep reservations. First, the exhibit wants to indicate how Greek sculpture changed in the classical period, by showing its movement from the frontal, rigid forms of 6th century B.C. kouroi, whose ancestry lay in Egyptian cult figures, to the more naturalistic treatment of balance and bodily movement one sees in works such as The Kritios Boy (circa 480 B.C.), which was found on the Acropolis. And it demonstrates this in considerable detail, through marvelous examples of 5th century...
...show ought not to be missed. But neither should its second premise be taken seriously: the idea that there was some causal connection between the advent of the classical style in sculpture and that of democracy in Athenian politics. Both happened at roughly the same time: in the late 6th century an Athenian aristocrat, Kleisthenes, made an alliance with the people of Athens in order to defeat another noble, Isagoras, and pushed through a number of democratic reforms that were permanently enshrined in the Athenian constitution...
...population boom, though the great Bronze Age civilizations of India, Japan and China were at least a millennium away. Nomadic hunters and fishermen appeared for the first time along the shores of the Caspian and Aral seas and Lake Baikal. On the Iranian plateau, farmed since at least the 6th millennium B.C., people lived in houses of sun-dried brick, while craftsmen in the city of Anau used the potter's wheel to turn out elaborately shaped and painted clay vessels. These prehistoric Persians carried on trade with small villages in what is now northern Pakistan...
First-year medical student and former editorial chair of The Crimson Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 outlined the group's opposition to the free books in the school's October 6th newsletter...