The document outlines the major time periods of ancient Greek civilization from approximately 900 BCE to 30 BCE. It discusses the Geometric period, Orientalizing period, Archaic period, Classical period divided into Early, High, and Late, and the Hellenistic period. For each period, it provides some key developments and examples of artworks that characterize the period, such as the development of pottery styles in the Geometric and Orientalizing periods and the emergence of temple architecture and standing figure sculptures in the Archaic period.
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900-600BCE The Geometric and The Orientalizing
600-480BCE Archaic
480-323BCE Classical
480-450BCE Early Classical
450-400BCE High Classical
400-323BCE Late Classical
323-31/30BCE Hellenistic
Time Periods
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City-state (polis)
Athens, Corinth, Sparta, etc.
Coinage (from Asia Minor)
Alphabetic writing (from the Phoenicians) 7th C, BCE
Representative govt, private property, freedom of
speech, etc. (in Athens) by 6th C, BCE (MALE)
Polytheistic
Sanctuaries (vs. Egyptian)
Greek Civilization
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Geometric
Dipylon Krater (funerary vase).
750-700BCE
Man and Centaur.
750BCE.
Rectilinear forms on pottery – pots are main source of info for this period…
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Woman poet, Sappho, on island of Lesbos
http://youtu.be/nNrdMafHtu0
http://youtu.be/5sZMUReQqxs
Aesop’s fables (on another island) http://youtu.be/BBBymzF8hoI
Athens was growing/prospering
Artist’s commissions/begin signing their work
Archaic – 600-480BCE
So-called “old-fashioned” compared to the classical aesthetic to follow…