f democrocy. The religion of the time was poleithistic, but because of the seperation of the City States, it never developed the structure of the preceading Egyptian religion. The Greaks used their religion to illuminate their own lives, rather than to give them divine guidance. They turned to art and literiture, rather than prayer, as a means of trying to discover themselves (Conningham and Reich, 36-37). This enphicis on self spawned new beliefs about mans order in the universe. Contrairy to Egyptian belifes, the Greeks did not see their Gods as the center universe, and belived that they as humans had some controle over their own destiny (Conningham and Reich, 39).The freedom to explore the self allowed the Greeks to make advances in mathmatics, philosophy, and art. The advances in philosophy and mathematics had direct influance on the art of the time. This is first seen in the Protogeometric and Geometric art of the first three centuries of Greek civilizations. These unique styles show a meticuluse order and persion that was not seen in any preciading period. As the domanint style changed from Protogeometric to Geometric this order and persion was aplified. The populare circle and semicirlce paterns were replaced by linear disigns, zigzags, triangles, diamonds, and meanders (Conningham and Reich, 40). The increased interest in order, seems to have been a relfection of the Greek fascination with nature, and mans relationship to nature. This interest in the order of nature, eventualy evolved into a fasonation with the human form and the idea of human perfection. Although early Greek sculpture highly resembled Egyptian cult statues, distict diferaces in design made Greek sculpture remarkably unique, and in consiquence showed a major difference in the Greek social stucture, and thier view the man. The first and probably most improtant diference of the Greek sculptural disign was that the figures were mainly shown as nud...
