Introduction The art of ancient Greece stands out in time and has influenced the art and culture of several countries, particularly in the areas of sculpture and architecture. In the West, the art of the Roman Empire was largely derived from Greek models. In the East, the exploits of Alexander the great resulted in exchanges between Greek, Central Asian, and Indian cultures, resulting in Greco-Buddhist art. Following the Renaissance in Europe, Greek art played a crucial role in inspiring several generations of European artists. The classical tradition derived from Greece dominated the art of the western world well into the 19th century. The Greeks wrote a great deal, and ancient Greek literature is still available to us 2500 years later. Their writing is traditionally divided into many types: the epic, the poem, the plays, the history, the philosophical dialogues and treatises, and finally the speeches. Around 700 BC, Homer wrote two connected epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Two early Greek poems are Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days, both from around 700 BC. The oldest Greek plays that were tragedies were written by Aeschylus around 500 BC. There are also tragedies written by Sophocles (around 450 BC) and Euripides (around 425 BC). Aristophanes wrote comedy plays around 425 BC. Plays were generally written in verse form like poems. Two major histories were written by Herodotus and Thucydides. The first written philosophy was written by Plato around 380 BC in the form of a dialogue between two or more people. Later on both Plato and his student Aristotle wrote regular philosophical books, in prose without dialogues (Burckhardt, 1963). The three most famous speechwriters, belonging to 300 BC were Lysias, Isocrates, and Demosthenes (Burckhardt, 1963). The art of Ancient Greece The art of Ancient Greece is usually divided stylistically into four periods: the Geometric, the Archaic, the Classical, and the Hellenistic. The Geometric age is usually dated from about 1000 BC. The 7th century BC witnessed the slow development of the Archaic style as exemplified by the black-figure style of vase painting. The Archaic period and the Classical periods are separated by the Persian Wars (480 BC to 448 BC) and the reign of Alexander the Great (336 BC to 323 BC) is taken as separating the Classical from the Hellenistic periods. Ancient Greek art is seen today mostly in the realms of sculpture and architecture and also in minor art forms such as coin design, pottery, and gem engraving. There are some remnants of painted pottery from the Archaic period. The Greeks, like most European cultures, regarded painting as the highest form of art and the most widely respected and admired painter of mid 5th century BC was painter Polygnotus of Thasos (Carpenter, 1962). Greek painters worked mainly on wooden panels, and these could not be preserved over time. They perished rapidly after the 4th century AD. Today, one finds only a few examples of painted terra cotta and a few paintings on the walls of tombs, mostly in Macedonia and Italy. There are not many original Greek paintings today. However, the painting on the pottery that exists today provides a glimpse of Greek painting (Carpenter, 1962). As in the case of painting, there are not many works of Greek sculpture or architecture. Many sculptures of pagan gods were destroyed during the early Christian era