What You Will Learn about the Art of Ancient Greece
In Module Four we will examine the culture of Ancient Greece with a focus on the art of the Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic, Classical (Early, High), Late Classical and Hellenistic periods.
Learning Activities
The learning activities for this module include:
Introduction to Ancient Greece
- READ: Key Learning Items (10 minutes)
- READ: The Art of Ancient Greece: An Outline (30 minutes)
- READ: Introduction to Ancient Greece (5 minutes)
- READ: Introduction to Ancient Greek Art (20 minutes)
- READ: Introduction to Greek Architecture (15 minutes)
- WATCH: The Classical Orders (11 minutes)
- READ: Greek Architectural Orders (10 minutes)
- READ: The Olympic Games (10 minutes)
- READ: Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Ancient Greece: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
- READ: Greek Vase-Painting, an Introduction (10 minutes)
- READ: Greek Gods and Religious Practices: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
Geometric
- READ: Geometric Art in Ancient Greece: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
- WATCH: Geometric: Dipylon Amphora (4 minutes)
- WATCH: Geometric Terracotta Krater (4 minutes)
Orientalizing
- WATCH: Orientalizing: Eleusis Amphora (7 minutes)
- READ: Sophilos: a New Direction in Greek Pottery (8 minutes)
Archaic
- WATCH: Ancient Greek Vase Production and the Black-Figure Technique
(4 minutes) - WATCH: Prize Amphora showing a Chariot Race (1 minute)
- WATCH: A Competitor in the Long Jump (1 minute)
- WATCH: Sprinter on a Vase from Rhodes and a Bronze Running Girl (1 minute)
- WATCH: Victorious Athlete: The Vaison Daidoumenos (1 minute)
- WATCH: Daedalic: Lady of Auxerre (4 minutes)
- READ: Greek Art in the Archaic Period from Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
- WATCH: Archaic: Attic Black-Figure, Exekias, Amphora with Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game (6 minutes)
- WATCH: Archaic: Euphronios, Sarpedon Krater (7 minutes)
- READ: Archaic: Euthymides, Three Revelers (5 minutes)
- WATCH: Archaic: Attic Black-Figure: Exekias, Dionysos Kylix (4 minutes)
- WATCH: Archaic: Attic Red-Figure: Niobid Painter, Niobid Krater (6 minutes
- WATCH: Archaic: New York Kouros (6 minutes)
- WATCH: Archaic: Marble Statue of a Kouros (Youth) (4 minutes)
- WATCH: Archaic: Anavysos Kouros (5 minutes)
- WATCH: Archaic: Peplos Kore from the Acropolis (5 minutes)
- WATCH: Archaic and Early Classical: Ancient Greek temples at Paestum, Italy (7 minutes)
- WATCH: Archaic: Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi (5 minutes)
Classical
- READ: The Art of Classical Greece (ca. 480–323 B.C.) from the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
- WATCH: Early Classical: East and West Pediments, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
(15 minutes) - WATCH: Early Classical: Kritios Boy (6 minutes)
- WATCH: Early Classical: Charioteer of Delphi (4 minutes)
- WATCH: Early Classical: Artemision Zeus or Poseidon (5 minutes)
- READ: Early Classical: Riace Warriors (5 minutes)
- WATCH: Early Classical: Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) (5 minutes)
- READ: Early Classical: Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer) (5 minutes)
- WATCH: Early Classical: Myron, Discobolus (Discus Thrower), Roman copy of an ancient Greek bronze (4 minutes)
- WATCH: High Classical: The Athenian Agora and the Experiment in Democracy (5 minutes)
- WATCH: High Classical: Parthenon (Acropolis)(15 minutes)
- WATCH: High Classical: East Pediment sculptures, Parthenon, including Helios, Horses and Dionysus (Heracles?) (5 minutes)
- WATCH: High Classical: Parthenon Frieze (5 minutes)
- WATCH: High Classical: Plaque of the Ergastines fragment from the frieze on the east side of the Parthenon (5 minutes)
- WATCH: High Classical: Parthenon Metopes (7 minutes)
- WATCH: Egyptian Blue on the Parthenon Sculptures (6 minutes)
- WATCH: High Classical: The Erechtheion (8 minutes)
- WATCH: High Classical: Caryatid and Column from the Erechtheion (4 minutes)
- READ: High Classical: Temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis (8 minutes)
- WATCH: High Classical: Victory (Nike) Adjusting Her Sandal, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis) (4 minutes)
- WATCH: High Classical: Grave Stele of Hegeso (3 minutes)
Late Classical
- WATCH: Late Classical: Capitoline Venus (4 minutes)
- WATCH: Late Classical: Lysippos, Farnese Hercules (6 minutes)
- WATCH: Late Classical: Lysippos, Apoxyomenos (Scraper) (4 minutes)
- WATCH: Late Classical: Alexander Sarcophagus (11 minutes)
Hellenistic
- READ: Art of the Hellenistic Age and the Hellenistic Tradition from Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (15 minutes)
- WATCH: Hellenistic: Barberini Faun (6 minutes)
- WATCH: Hellenistic: Dying Gaul (4 minutes)
- WATCH: Hellenistic: Bronze Statue of Eros Sleeping (3 minutes)
- WATCH: Hellenistic: Winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace (3 minutes)
- WATCH: Hellenistic Art: Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon (9 minutes)
- WATCH: Hellenistic: Apollonius, Seated Boxer (4 minutes)
- WATCH: Hellenistic: Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii (6 minutes)
- WATCH: Hellenistic: Laocoön and His Sons (4 minutes)