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Flashcards by Sierra Hymas, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sierra Hymas
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| Relief commemorating victory of the Leontis tribe, early 4th century BCE. agora. Shows 5 riders with their horses rearing simultaneously, the backside of the relief has a lion with the inscription "the leontis were victorious". | |
| Attic black-figure Panathenaic amphora, 490 BCE. commissioned by athens. Panathenaic amphoras filled with oil and used as a reward for the victor of Panathenaic Games. Athena is on one side and a charioteer on the other. Style is more archaic than contemporary style at this time but that is typical for the ritualized games | |
| Textile from tomb and Vergina,336-311 BCE. Most costly kind of weaving and most expensive dyes used. Shiny gold would have created interesting visual effect if worn outside. | |
| Red figure skyphos, 450-440 BCE. penelope sitting at the loom sad, being pressured by a suitor to marry someone else now that Odysseus has been gone for years. Order of the house suggests she is being a good housewife while he is away. | |
| Early corinthian column kraeter, 600-590 BCE, banquet of eurytios. Eurytios and his sons with Herakles, sitting alone at the couch. In the end herakles will kill eury and his sons, but the scene is calm- reminder that the symposium can get out of hand quickly | |
| Middle Corinthian skyphos, 585-570 BCE. Shows the komos, which is the dance symposiasts do before symposium. Some people are throwing up from drinking too much, reminding the drinker of the need for balance. | |
| Kouros from Anavyssos, perhaps a tomb, 530 BCE. Base reads "stay and mourn for kroisos" who died in battle. To die in battle was ideal, because you get to be remembered ideally like this idealized kouros whose name will be remembered for generations. his remembrance was v important to his family and anyone visiting his tomb. | |
| Attic white-ground lekythoi with funerary scenes, Athens,450-440 BCE. Left one shows a prothesis and an unrestrained youth showing his despair unlike older men- more reserved displays of grief than geometric period. Right one shows a funeral stele. Middle shows Charon, reaching to take shade of deceased to the underworld. | |
| Stele of hegeso, 400 BCE., Athens. "Hegeso, daughter of Proxenos" is seated with an attendant. importance of male line as she is the only female mentioned, but her mentioning shows ackowledgement of their role in running household. she is idealized as poised, modest, and beautiful. |
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