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Rick Steves' Europe
Art Bites 108: Greece’s Age of Hellenism
Around 330 BC Alexander the Great spread Greek culture far and wide. The art of the age traded the calm balance of the Golden Age for more exuberance and realism as seen in statues like the Nike of Samothrace.
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