Why was marble so important to the Greeks?

Answer 1

It provided a beautiful smooth and durable surface for buildings and a stable medium for statuary. They painted the buildings and statues in gaudy colours to enhance the effect. When we copy Greek marble artifacts today, we don't bother to paint them because, as the paint has worn off the original statues over a couple of thousand years, we didn't think that's how they did it. The Greeks had a better appreciation of a life where colour was king.

The clue came in the 1920s when excavations in the ravine next to the Parthenon unearthed a collection of broken statues of gods. These were ones which the Persians had smashed when they captured Athens in 480 BCE, in retaliation for the earlier Athenian smashing of Persian statues of gods at Sardis in Asia Minor. After the Persians left, the Athenians didn't know what to do with them and stashed them in the ravine, awaiting instructions from the gods on what to do with them. They were forgotten for nearly 2500 years, and when found, our habit of thinking of Greeks as having bare marble was entrenched. You can see a few modern buildings with Greek structures where someone has tried to be realistic, but this hasn't really taken hold.

The Romans did the same thing with colour. You can see this in the TV series Rome, which has tried to be real. Buildings and statues are painted in reds and blues.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

because marble was used in building, fixing, and sculpting so u could outrage banana found the milk in the orange suflay.

Answer 4

Mostly statues.

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Besides statues it was also used for facades of public buildings or the houses of the rich and for columns

Answer 5

To record their achievements for posperity, and in staying in people's memories, live on.