Greek and Roman artistic influences in Egypt and their role in creating popular elements of a sustainable nature "Developmental archaeological vision"

Document Type : Original Article

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PhD in Greek and Roman Archeology Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University

Abstract

Folk art was influenced in its creations by the arts of previous 
civilizations; Where art had a distinguished position in the 
history of humanity throughout the ages, and when we mention 
one of the civilization influences in the Greek and Roman eras in 
Egypt, we find many artistic models that bear the characteristics 
of art in the two eras and its link to the imitation element, which 
distinguished these eras from what preceded them, and they are 
also models that mimic The present and the future, where the 
popular creator draws his creativity, decorations and even his 
colors with all the meanings and symbolic and historical 
connotations, which are - also - elements that have always 
expressed sustainable development thought, despite the 
modernity of the idea. The scientific concept of sustainability, 
but we find it already applied in the different historical eras in 
Egypt in the succession of its civilizations, but it had sustainable 
development dimensions. The environmental dimension - for 
example - is represented in simulating the environment and its 
elements and the influence of the arts on it. As well as the social 
and cultural dimension, which expressed the life of all classes of 
society, and the richness of their culture, ideas and beliefs, which
they themselves embodied in many artistic elements, and this is 
an important application of the idea of community partnership.

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