5. Greek Geography after collapse of
mycenaean civilization
Greece was divided into
small self-governing
communities (city-states
or polis) (9th/10th BCE)
Why? Geography of the
region: islands and
valleys cut off by the sea
or mountains.
Warrior aristocracies
developed with main
centers in Athens, Sparta,
Corinth, Delphi, and
Thebes.
Inter-city rivalry gave way
to war between city-states.
6. Greek “Dark Age” to Archaic
“Dark Age” (1150 B.C.E.- 700 B.C.E.) –Greek isolation
Ended when Phoenician ships entered the Aegean and gave
the Greeks a writing system (phonetical) , helped develop
Eastern Mediterranean and SW Asia.
Much of Greece remained oral culture
Theatrical drama, philosophical dialogues, and oratory from
interaction of speaking and writing.
8. 8
Geometric Krater,
from the Dipylon
cemetery, Athens,
Greece, ca. 740 BCE.
42” high.
Use of registers
Shows funerary rituals
(cremation)
9. 9
740 BCE
Human emotions
Geometric shapes
How does this differ
from Minoan
predecessors?
How does artist show
sense of loss?
1500 BCE
10. Orientalizing
period
• 700 – 600 BCE
• Began in Corinth (trade
center)
• Black figure technique
emerged in pottery
• Are there any precedents
for these creatures?
• What influences are
there?
Corinthian Olpe
12. Greek RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
Immortal gods on Mt. Olympus, but took
human form with human weaknesses
Zeus & Hera the power couple
Sanctuaries dedicated to the gods (before
temples)
http://youtu.be/eJCm8W5RZes
13. Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi
Literally the center of the earth, per their religion
14. Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi
Karnak
• Advice from Oracle of Delphi
• Site of Pythian Games
• Theatre, Treasury, Temple
• Designed to fit site – very specific unlike Egyptian
15. Homeric age
Iliad and Odyssey
actually written during
Geometric period
Heroic tales of
gods and heroes
Also Aesop’s
Fables, Sappho’s
poetry
Human supremacy
and responsibility
eventually will be
expressed in art
16.
17. Anavysos Kouros, from Anavysos, Greece, ca.
530 BCE. Marble, 6’ 4” high
What influences?
How did they go from figurines to lifesize
marble or terra cotta?
Archaic Smile
- Kouros=young man, Kore=young
woman
Men were always shown nude (unlike?)
Grave monument to a fallen hero, more
lifelike than earlier Kouros
18. Peplos Kore,
and a painted cast
Wore dress Chiton
and Peplos in style
Marble, 530 BCE
Votive statue to gods
Female statues
believed to be deities,
nymphs, or
priestesses
19. Artist: Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter)
Title: Death of Sarpedon
Ceramic calyx krater with red-figure decoration, 18"
high
Date: c. 515 BCE, Archaic Period
Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
Euphronius best known red figure artist, illustrating a
story from the Iliad, Sleep & Death carry dead Trojan
warrior from battlefield
Balanced composition, rhythm of decorative bands
echoing the shape of the body and Hermes, guide to
the Underworld
Foreshortening … such as Sarpedon’s left leg
Body beautiful
New red figure technique supplanted black figure-could
paint rather than incise details
Death of Sarpedon
20.
21. The Arts & Sciences (Pre-Socratic)
DRAMA (tragedians):
Sophocles (496-406 B.C.E.)
Euripides (480-406 B.C.E.)
THE SCIENCES:
Pythagoras (580-490 B.C.E.?) - father of mathematics
Democritus (460-370 B.C.E.)- all matter made up of
small atoms.
Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.E.) “Father of Medicine”
22. Early Athenian Lawgivers
Draco (7th C B.C.E.)- “draconian”
Solon (6th C B.C.E.) - lawgiver; divided Athens
into four classes based on farm yields; avert civil
war
Cleisthenes (5th C B.C.E.) - created the first
“democracy”
Pericles- Athenian democracy: Assembly, Council of 500,
People’s Court; Parthenon
23. Great Athenian Philosophers
Socrates (470-399 B.C.E.)
Know thyself !
question everything; Socratic Method
only the pursuit of goodness
brings happiness.
Plato (428-347 B.C.E.)
The Academy
The world of the FORMS - mimeticism
The Republic philosopher-king
24. Great Athenian Philosophers
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.)
The Lyceum
Collect and categorize a vast array of knowledge: politics, philosophy,
ethics, logic, poetry, rhetoric, physics, astronomy, meteorology, zoology,
and psychology;
Modern disciplines and the Scientific method.
Alexander’s Tutor
34. Dying warrior, from the west pediment of the Temple of
Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, ca. 500–490 BCE. Marble, 5’ 2 ½“
East Pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, ca.
480 BCE. Marble, 6’ 1” long.
35.
36. Kritios Boy, from
the Acropolis,
Athens, Greece,
ca. 480 BCE.
Marble, 2’ 10”
high.
40. Canon of
proportions…
POLYKLEITOS,
Doryphoros (Spear
Bearer). Roman
marble copy
from Pompeii,
Italy, after a
bronze original
of ca. 450–440
BCE, 6’ 11”
high.
41. Polykleitos. Doryphoros
(Spear Bearer), Roman
copy from a bronze
original of c. 450-440
BCE, marble
Canon of Polykleitos/
harmony of opposites
(rhythmos and
symmetria)/ four stages
of man in Greek life/
education of an ephebe
(or ephebos)
43. Persian Wars: Battles
Marathon (490 BCE)
26+ miles from Athens
Thermopylae (480 BCE)
300 Spartans at the mountain pass
Salamis (480 BCE)
Athenian navy victorious
44. 44
KRESILAS,
Pericles. Roman
marble copy of a
bronze original of
ca. 429 BCE.
Full herm 6’ high;
detail 4’ 6 1/2”
high.
54. Inner Ionic frieze of the Parthenon,
447-438 BCE
use of the Ionic order in the cella/
Panathenaic procession/ Arrephorion
55.
56.
57.
58.
59. French color drawing
of the Parthenon
Below: View of a
corner frieze of the
Parthenon
60. Parthenos, model
of the lost statue
created for the
cella of the
Parthenon
(Athens) c. 438
BCE
statue of Athena
with the Python
(representing the
“logos”)/ aegis
61. PHIDIAS,
Athena Parthenos,
in the cella of the
Parthenon, Acropolis,
Athens, Greece,
ca. 438 BCE.
Model of the lost
chryselephantine
statue.
80. Nike Adjusting her
Sandal ,
from the south side of the
parapet of the Temple of
Athena Nike, Acropolis,
Athens, Greece, ca. 410
BCE. Marble, 3’ 6” high.
81. 81
Grave stele of Hegeso,
from the Dipylon
cemetery, Athens,
Greece, ca. 400
BCE. Marble, 5’ 2”
high.
83. The Peloponnesian Wars
The emergence of Athens as an imperial power after the
Persian Wars led to open hostilities with former allies.
Mainly between the Spartans (financed by the Persians) and
the Athenians, lasted three decades with a Spartan victory.
Persia regained much of its control and because of uprisings
in Egypt, Cyprus, and Phoenicia, it did not return to attack
Greece.
In northern Greece, Macedonians, Philip II and his son,
Alexander, would reshape the eastern Mediterranean and
western Asia in this vacuum.