Improve public health and strengthen U.S. national security through global disease detection, response, prevention, and control strategies. The health of the U.S. population can be affected by public health threats or events across the globe.
The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the Age of Pericles, though the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars, or as late as the next century.
Beauty in the Human Form. Ancient Greek sculptures were typically made of either stone or wood and very few of them survive to this day. Most Greek sculpture was of the freestanding, human form (even if the statue was of a god) and many sculptures were nudes. The Greeks saw beauty in the naked human body. Early Greek statues called kouros were rigid and stood up straight.