~WHICH IS THE GREATEST ANCIENT CIVILISATION~

[PARMENION]

1) The Greek
2) The Greek
3) The Greek
;D ;D ;D ;D

[Liquid Len]

I adore Baalbek, so I voted for Rome. Actually I'm not so specially fond of roman architecture or style in general, but the two Baalbek temples look great. Well, one of them is only some huge columns now, but anyway... It isn't that typically roman, neither. But it's most of all roman. I don't like the low, long shape and the colouring doric temples used to have. And the ionic temples were imo too little massive, and also painted, though the capitals looked very nice. Better than the corinthian ones, the Romans preferred. The Parthenon looks also too delicate, in my opinion.

[Ardashir]

Buddyryvall said:

LOL, the Ottoman empire wasn't Ancient, but we still kicked their asses out of Greece
The Pesian empire also got their asses kicked by Greeks
Listen pichko, theres no need to take cheap shots at Greece just because your country has no history Im sure your ancient people made lovely mud huts

first,the Persian Achamanid empire got their asses kicked not by Greeks but by Macedonians!

second,You Greeks didn't kick Ottoman's ass out of Greece.You only rebelled and that's the Western powers kicked the Turk's asses out of your country!

next time you should be more accurate!

[geo]

Ardashir said:

first,the Persian Achamanid empire got their asses kicked not by Greeks but by Macedonians!

second,You Greeks didn't kick Ottoman's ass out of Greece.You only rebelled and that's the Western powers kicked the Turk's asses out of your country!

first, in alexander's army participated armies from all the city-states save sparta!

second, the western powers kicked the joined ottoman-egyptian ass. We rebels had a special appetite for the ottoman only!

next time you should be more accurate!

[PARMENION]

And Macedonians where Greeks!!!..of the Dorian tribe!!

"For in the days of king Deucalion it (i.e. a Macedonian tribe) inhabited the land of Phthiotis, then in the time of Dorus, son of Hellen, the country called Histiaean, under Ossa and Olympus; driven by the Cadmeians from this Histiaean country it settled about Pindus in the parts called Macedonian; thence again it migrated to Dryopia, and at last came from Dryopia into Peloponnesus, where it took the name of Dorian."

(Herod. I, 56, 3 [Loeb, A.D. Godley])

"Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... (and) I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ..."

(Arr., Anab. Alex. II, 14, 4)

[jinanren]

China is a great ancient empire because its influence and superpower status lasted such a long time(200 B.C. to 1700 with periods of disunity, civil war, occupation). Also you have to define what you mean by "ancient!" it is very subjective, some people might consider WWI ancient.

[Meddish]

1.)Any out of the middle-east ;D

2.)Pax Romana!

3.)Ultima thule and Atlantis home of the blonde and blue eyed gods ;D

[Liquid Len]

Pics and reconstructions of Baalbek:

[Liquid Len]

Priene, a hellenistic Ionian Greek city in nowaday's Turkey;
the Athena temple looks (or rather looked) particularly nice:

[Liquid Len]

Some reconstructions from Miletus (also Ionian / Turkey):
















There are more to be seen here:
www.fhw.gr/fhw/en/projects/3dvr/miletus/index.html

[Liquid Len]

A further example of the classical Ionian architecture (I like that style), the temple of Artemis of Magnesia on Maeandrus (in Turkey):

[Liquid Len]

Other Greek styles:


Classical Doric (Akragas/ Agrigento, Sicily)


Archaic Doric (somewhere in Southern Italy)


Archaic Ionian (Metapontus, Southern Italy)


Archaic Ionian (the famous Artemision of Ephesus (Turkey))

[Liquid Len]

Very typically Roman, the "maison carrée" in Nîmes, France:





Do you see the difference?

[kwalka]

they all need to be powerwashed

[Clemo]

The Ottoman empire.