Ancient Greek Civilization

is prepared to supply. Hesiod’s poetry is designed both to flatter and to teach the basileis, who are expe ...

Figure 21 Interior of black-figure Laconian cup by the Arkesilas Painter, showing Atlas (left) and the puni ...

presumably originates among the peoples of western Asia, the earliest human generation was a golden race of m ...

rather be the product of pure invention on the part of the poet. It is a curious feature of ancient Greek ci ...

reason for this is that the other locations we have encountered have been places whose ancient names ...

linen cloth, were placed in a twelfth-century bronze amphora that was decorated with scenes of hunting. Aro ...

a sort of competition, as wealthy families sought to outdo one another in the extravagance with which ...

influence by one poet on the other is, of course, one possibility. For example, the phrases quoted above from ...

narrative patterns or “typical scenes.” Frequently in the Iliad and the Odyssey the poet describes a sacrif ...

however, that by the sixth century BC the Iliad and the Odyssey attained essentially the written form in which ...

which Homeric heroes can acquire valuable items is on the battlefield, by slaying a notable warrior in single c ...

“Priam spoke, and in doing so aroused in Achilles a tearful longing for his own father. Taking hold of the old man ...

of community in which the Odyssey and the Iliad reached their final form but which is not explicitly seen in ...

and friend, of the nature of oral technique in a new edition with an audio and video CD documenting Slavic ...

4 POETRY AND SCULPTURE OF THE ARCHAIC PERIOD The Human Figure in Archaic Art Lyric Poetry of Archaic Greece The Ar ...

aspects of the sculpture and poetry of the period, which we will continue to call by its traditional name. Th ...

Timeline 4 The Archaic Period. One might be inclined to attribute this uniformity to a lack of imaginat ...

KOUROS (PLURAL: KOUROI) An Archaic statue of a naked young man in a standing pose (figure 24 ). Figure 23 ...

Figure 24 Attic marble statue of a young man (“kouros”); height 1.946 m, ca. 590–580 BC. New York, Metropolitan ...

But the young man has no attributes. Or, rather, he has no attributes that mark him as an individual. His attribut ...