Ancient Mediterranean - Khan Academy

 "I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think." - Socrates (470-399 BCE) 

KEY PERIODS 
Geometric, 900 BCE
Orientalizing, 700 BCE
Archaic, 550 BCE
Severe, 480 BCE
Classical, 450 BCE
Late Classical, 350 BCE
Hellenistic, 250 BCE



 
Key Ideas
* Greeks are interested in the human figure the idea of perfection.
* Greek Temples provide a foundation for European architecture and reflects the idea of obtaining perfection with mathematical ratios.
* The Greek time period starts at around 900 BCE, about 200 years after the collapse of the Mycenaeans.
* In the 5th century, the Greeks defeated the Persians, though it left Athens in ruins (rebuilt by Pericles) = Start of the Classical time period
* Polykleitos's canon of proportions: The head should be 1/7 of the body.
* The chiastic stance that expresses the alternating relaxed and stressed muscles.
* The Peloponnesian War in 432 BCE (lasted about 27 years), devastated and crushed Athens by the victorious Spartans = Start of the Hellenistic Period.
* Alexander the Great took over and united the Macedonians with the Greeks in the 4th century and after his death, his empire gave into Roman rule.

 
 
Student Resources
PowerPoint - Key Ideas - Key Periods - Artworks List - Vocabulary - Q card Images
  * YouTube Video: Crash Course
* YouTube Video: The Development of Ancient Greek Art
* YouTube Video: Secrets of the Parthenon
* YouTube Video: Classical Orders
* YouTube Video: SmartHistory's Nike of Samothrace
NOVA Video: The Parthenon's Optical Illusions
  FRQ Practice
Obtaining Perfection Chart
Nike of Samothrace from Emory University
Seated Boxer by the Met in NY 
The Alexander Mosaic - article
The Dying Gaul by The National Gallery of Art
 

Artwork Sculpture List
Geometric
Geometric (Funerary) Krater

Archaic
Anavayos Kouros
Peplos Kore

Severe
Kritios Boy
Niobides Krater

Classical
Doryphoros
Riace Warrior
Diskobolos

Late Classical
Helios, Horses and Dionysus
Plaque of the Ergastines
Victory Adjusting Her Sandal
Grave Stele

Hellenistic
Nike of Samothrace
Athena from the Pergamon Altar
Seated Boxer
Old Market Woman

Architecture
Parthenon
Altar of Zeus at Pergamon

Greek Painting
Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun

 
Vocabulary 
Acropolis
Architrave
Athena
Canon
Caryatid
Cella
Chiastic
Contrapposto
Corinthian
Doric
Encaustic
Entablature
Frieze
Gigantomachy
Ionic
Kouros
Kore
Krater
Lost wax process
Metope
Nike
Opisthodomos
Panathenaic Procession
Pediment
Peplos
Peripteral
Peristyle
Propylaea
Shaft
Stele
Triglyph
Volute
Zeus
 

 

      

         

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Thank you so much to Lynn Wilkinson, Mary McConnell, Valerie Park and Martha Kunz for all their quidance and resources.

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