Greek art and archaeology midterm

‘Suicide of Ajax’

Exekias 540 BCE

Attic Black figure

Amphora

moment of contemplation before action

‘Dionysus with Rhyton’ 

Archaic

Exekias 540-530 BCE

Attic Black Figure

Kylix

Homeric hymn to dionysus - dionysus resistance myth

Bilingual Amphora

Archaic

Andokides 520-510 BCE

earliest forms of red figure.

Red figure on one side, Black figure on the other

Hero feast

Athena

Larger figures on red side, greater emphasis

‘The Death of Sarpedon’

Archaic

Euphronius 510 BCE

Attic calyx Crater

Found in an Etruscan grave

large crater - 60.5 cm

Hypnos and Thanatos, Hermes behind as guide to styx (Psychopompos)

Red glaze used for hair and blood

dilute glaze used for more subtle details e.g. muscles/tendons in sarpedon hand/thanatos hand

youth - no full beard

eyes only just coming closed - immediate moment of death

anatomical focus with flexibility of red figure

‘The Death of Sarpedon’ reverse

Archaic

Youths arming themselves

same age as sarpedon possibly

human form, experimenting with dynamic posing and ¾ views

‘Nestor’s Cup’

Geometric

unknown artist, 750 BCE

Earliest writing grafito

incscribed letters - read right to left

NOT gold cup from mycene

burial votive from Pithekoussai

cup made in rhodes, Euboean script, found island of ischia

inscription about drinking and the desires of aphrodite

cosmopolitan society at Pithekoussai

Diplyon inscription

inscription on Oinochoe - wine pourer

“whoever of all these dancers now plays the most delecately, to him this…”

inscription related to use - symposium/party

750 BCE Kerameikos cemetary athens

oinos=wine

kheo=to pour

dactylic hexameter, fully developed by this pot

Early evidence of dedication from 700 onwards

700-680BCE Thebes

Hexameter verse incsribes in semicircle on legs

Mantikos dedicated to Phoebus Apollo, bearer of the silver bow, asks for something in return

750-700 BCE

bronze figurines

votive offerings

Olympia - evidence of cult sites

small

Associated with increased archaeological evidence incl. increased sacrifice and temples