What you will learn about the Art of Ancient Greece

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)

Total: 8 hours and 43 minutes