Greek Warriors Bathroom Mat

Add some Greek art to your decor. Check out the matching shower curtain and bath set Greek art (or, more accurately, art in Greece) began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods (with further developments during the Hellenistic Period). It absorbed influences of Eastern civilizations, of Roman art and its patrons, and the new religion of Orthodox Christianity in the Byzantine era and absorbed Italian and European ideas during the period of Romanticism (with the invigoration of the Greek Revolution), right up until the Modernist and Postmodernist. Greek art is mainly five forms: architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery and jewelry making. Ancient Greek warriors became the premier warriors of their classical world. Through intense internal warfare, they perfected heavy infantry tactics, and when they were united, they were able to defeat an invasion by Persia, the super-power of their day. The heavily outnumbered Greek warriors, called hoplites, used superior tactics, training and arms to defeat two massive invasions. However, the Greeks returned to their incessant warfare once their common enemy was defeated. Philip of Hellenized Macedonia, king of what the Greeks considered a barbarian kingdom to their north, learned and even improved the Greek’s phalanx formation, and eventually dominated Greece. His son, Alexander the Great, then took the Macedonian and Greek warriors he inherited from his father and conquered the known world. Greek culture, called Hellenistic, became dominate from Sicily to India.