state. In both Cicero and Virgil, it is obvious that they thought the highest qualities of humans to be our most natural state because it was endowed by the gods to be so, and that if there was corruption in the human world, the divine powers would restore them because it is the will of the gods to form and maintain the human race and society. Their belief in the human race came from their faith in god. 3) Egyptian and Greek Art When we look at Egyptian paintings, we see that the drawings do not quite describe objects as they actually are. When a man is drawn, his face is turned sideways but his shoulders and body are facing the front while the foot is turned sideways. This strange way of drawing is called the "정면성의 원리( I'm sorry, I don't know what that is in English)". What the Egyptians were trying to achieve through the use of this method was to present the parts of the object which most clearly shows its characteristics. For instance, the characteristics of a man's face is most distinctly shown when it is turned sideways, and the body's when it is turned towards the front, and so forth. The Egyptians don't seem to have been interested in drawing objects as they actually were. When they drew, they analized the visual information of the object so that they could present its most distinct characteristics in the form of visual generalization. For them, the important thing was to catch the essence of the object. In this sense, it can be said that for them, art was a form of abstract vision. On the other hand, the Greek arts had a very different personality. Their starting point was to realize actual beauty in art. That was why they searched out the "golden proportion", in order to achieve the most beautiful in art. They weren't just trying to describe how things looked like; they were trying to present gods' greatness that went far beyond the limits of humanity. In other words, while their art ...
