Investigation plan: During Antiquity, art in Greece and Byzantium was important. The question to consider is: what are the similarities and differences between the art of ancient Greece and that of Byzantium? This topic is intriguing because art fascinated people then and continues to do so today. Ancient art is important because it has a strong influence on art in modern society. There will be a variety of different questions that will be faced, including how different Greece and Byzantium are, since they were both culturally similar and located in the same region. 480 BCE to 1453 CE is the period the investigation will focus on. Greece and Byzantium are the two places that will be investigated. In order to determine the similarities and differences, the topics that will be examined are art such as mosaics, architecture and fabrics in ancient Greece and ancient Byzantium. Word Count: 149Summary of Evidence: Art in Byzantium: 1. Early Byzantium • “Relief sculpture in various media and the two-dimensional arts of painting and mosaic were extremely popular in secular and religious art . » use, survive in significant numbers during the first centuries, as do ivory objects and elephant tusks. also a little architecture. One of them is part of an atrium featuring mosaics showing the wealth of the empire and daily life. It was in Constantinople, at the Grand Palace.2. Middle Byzantium• Since Byzantium was growing in wealth, bo...... middle of paper ...... is very interesting, because even though they were in the same region and one would expect that 'they have similar art, they don't In fact, they also had many differences between their arts, in fact, from the information gathered, there were more differences than similarities. One of the main similarities was the painting, but other than that there were mostly differences. These differences included jewelry from Byzantium and clay tablets from Greece. Also in Byzantium there were a lot of mosaics, but in Greece there were none, literature was something more common. This all goes back to the research question, because since there are these similarities and differences, it's about comparing and contrasting Byzantium and Greece. Overall, there are more differences between Greek and Byzantine art than similarities.: 187