The height of Greek Civilization
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- Works characterised by beautiful simplicity and graceful balance, and artitsic style now called ___________.
- Classical Art
- What are places of worship?
- sacntuaries
- What is the artistic showing of distances between objects as they appear to the eye?
- Perspective.
- What is a large vase for storing oil and other bulk supplies with scene from mythology?
- amphora
- Building for the gods
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-each greek city-state tried to turn their acropolis into an archtechtual treasure
-they build temples as places were their deites would live.
-the parthenons were perfectly balance they created the image of perfection. - Greek arts
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-they excelled at portraying the human form
-love of beauty was expressed in the fine arts and in architechture - Painting on vases
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-they painted murals but no originals have survived, but we can see them on greek vases
-they designed pottery with different shapes
-most pottery is red and black
- greek potters skillfully adapted their designs and decorations to the curves and shape of the vase. - sculpting the human body
- greek sculpture, liek greek architechture, reached its height during the time of Pericles
- Who was one of the greatest sculpters of greeces golden age?
- Myron
- Who was incharge of the parthenon's sculpture?
- Phidias
- Whoes work emphasised grace rather then power?
- Praxiteles
- Drama and Theater
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-Greeks were the first people to write and perform plays, which were presented twice a year at festivals to honor gods.
-Greeks explore human condition through theatrical dramas - What is tragedy?
- Charaters struggle agianst fate to be doomed, after much suffering
- Who is Aeschylus?
- The first of the Greek writers of tragedys in the 400s B.C. and he wrote 90 plays. He wrote Oresteia, a surviving play.
- Who is Sophocles?
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-Next tragedian
-served as general in the athenian army and lived through the Peloponnesian war
-one of his famous plays is called Oedipus Rex - Who is Euripides?
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-Last Greek tragedian
-Rarley dealt with influence of gods and goddesses
-Wrote 19 surviving plays about misery and war one of the trojan war - What is a comedy?
- plays with humerous themes and happy endings
- Who is Aristophanes?
- Wrote the most famous comidies one of his plays called the clouds was perhaps the most famous.
- The Olympic Games
- Greeks belived healthy bodies made the best use of natures gifts
- Where were the Olympic Games held?
- Olympia, every 4 years
- When were the first Olympic Games?
- 776 BC