The Greeks believed that the secret to making a great building was math. They carefully designed and measured their buildings, making sure they got all their angles, shapes and sizes right.

Their temples were held up with stone columns and sometimes decorated with stone carvings of famous battles from Greek myths.

The Greeks were really good at making statues too. Master sculptors carved lifelike marble statues and decorated them with brightly-coloured paints.

To make them even more spectacular, they added some gold, bronze and ivory jewellery - this would glint and sparkle in the sunlight.

Look at the statue of Athena below. Greeks sculptors were known for creating idealized forms. A sculptor might use the face of a beautiful woman with the upper body of another, the legs of a third woman to get a perfect form. This technique is known as idealization.