Ancient Greek Civilization

representation of the human figure, but also the kouroi as they now exist are literally not the same as when ...

Figure 25 Marble statue of a young woman (“kore”); height 0.55 m, ca. 520 BC. Athens, Acropolis Museum, no. 67 ...

“To you, Artemis, Phileratis made this dedication; accept her gift, goddess, and be her salvation.” (Callima ...

good deal of scholarly debate, and it cannot be said that the reasons for this acceptance are fully unders ...

“lyric” to refer to them, many of the small-scale, non-hexameter poems of the Archaic Period were accompanied ...

to a variety of types, all of which (with one exception) are vile. This is the same attitude toward wome ...

Map 8 Greece and the Aegean. “For a long time Demeter sat upon the chair, grieving in silence, nor did ...

an initiatory character that prepared young people for their future roles within the polis, girls as wive ...

performing song and dance designed to promote cohesion of the group and to instill the values of the polis. ...

Figure 26 Fragment of papyrus from Egypt with a poem by Sappho copied on it, later used as wrapping ...

character of elegiac verse, the language of both poets is overwhelmingly “Homeric.” But the battlefield that ...

Figure 27 Detail of Protocorinthian pitcher (the “Chigi Vase”); height of figured band 5 cm, ca. 640 BC. Rome, ...

fortitude of the individual hoplites were, naturally, of great value to the polis, but the nature of the phal ...

written and perceptive discussion of the development of Archaic art within its cultural and intellectual environment. Os ...

of Stefan Hagel and includes links to sound-files of performances of ancient Greek music on a reconstructed ...

5 SYMPOSIA, SEALS, AND CERAMICS IN THE ARCHAIC PERIOD The Symposium Seals Tyranny Ceramics This chapter examines some ...

privileged Greek males in the Archaic Period. In this chapter, we will look at some of the ways in ...

battlefield. This reclining posture limited the number of couches, and hence the number of symposiasts, that ...

rather part of the test, like the wine that they contained. “We are concerned only with quality, C ...

Minoan Crete and became common throughout Mycenaean and later Greek civilization. Today, thousands of Greek an ...