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Images - 6/10 - you must put "quotation marks" around ideas that aren't your own, that you stole from the website. Include more personal details Discussion - 4.5/5 - good contributions revealing good retention of important ideas from previous classes.

1／11／11 Q 1. Was music a important part of Greeks lives? 2. Were the Greeks fierce warriors? 3. Does Greeks value luxury items? 4. Were the Greeks seafaring people? 5. How were the notions of order, balance, symmetry depicted?

Picture 1 Marble seated harp player (harp) “P**eriod:****Late Early Cycladic I–Early Cycladic II** **Date:****2800–2700 B.C.** **Culture:****Cycladic** **Medium:****Marble** **Dimensions:****H. with harp 11 1/2 in. (29.21 cm)** **Classification:****Stone Sculpture****Credit Line:****Rogers Fund, 1947"** "A male figure playing a stringed instrument sits on a high-backed chair. This work is one of the earliest of the small number of known representations of musicians. It is distinguished by the sensitive modeling of the arms and hands.”

Picture 2

Bronze man and centaur


”Period:Geometric Date:mid-8th century B.C. Culture:Greek Medium:Bronze Dimensions:H. 4 3/8 in. (11.10 cm) Classification:BronzesCredit Line:Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917"

"Half man, half horse, the centaurs were thought to inhabit remote wooded areas. In much of Greek art, they appear in combat with humans and, by implication, are the antithesis of civilized men. The classic rendering of this subject can be seen in the metopes of the Parthenon in Athens. It is, however, already fully presented in this bronze statuette. The outcome of the conflict is indicated by the end of the spear preserved in the centaur's left flank and by the greater height of the man.“

Picture 3

Marble head of a goddess
”Period:Late Classical Date:4th century B.C. Culture:Greek Medium:Marble Dimensions:H. 21 3/4 in. (55.25 cm) Classification:Stone Sculpture Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1910"

"In antiquity, heads were often carved separately from the statues for which they were intended. The heads were made with a convex tenon that could be set into a specially prepared cavity in the statue. The juncture was concealed by a line of drapery. This finely carved example must represent a goddess because of its colossal size. Persephone (the daughter of Demeter and wife of Hades, the god of the underworld) and Hygeia (the daughter of Asklepios, the god of medicine) were often represented with hair separated into thick coils pulled back to the top of the head and tied loosely in a knot. Such a knot was probably affixed to this head using three large holes that remain in the back.”

Picture 4

Classification:Stone SculptureCredit Line:Rogers Fund, 1920"
Restored: ends of all but one palmette leaf, parts of the volutes

"Both faces of the akroterion are carved. The front is decorated in relief with a double palmette, its stems rising in the form of spiral tendrils from a bed of akanthos leaves; the flower at the top once had a painted stem. A similar decoration on the back was left unfinished.“

PIcture 5

Lion felling a bull, from a marble pediment


”Period:Archaic Date:ca. 525–500 B.C. Culture:Greek, Attic <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Medium:Marble, Parian <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dimensions:Overall: 25 3/16 x 7 in. (64 x 17.8 cm) Other: 28 3/8in. (72cm) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Classification:Stone SculptureCredit Line:Rogers Fund, 1942"

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The original composition, which probably decorated the pediment (triangular gable) of a small building, consisted of two lions felling their prey. The adjoining piece, which the forepart of the right-hand lion and the middle of the bull, was found near the Olympieion in Athens in 1862 and is now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. The subject is one of the most popular in Archaic art of all media. It allowed artists to infuse a symmetrical composition with violent movement. It may also have represented the conflict between civilized life and nature, a theme symbolized later by the struggles between Greeks and centaurs.“

Picture 6

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: SavoyRoman,georgia,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 2em; vertical-align: baseline;">Gold stater
”Period:Early Hellenistic Date:ca. 323/2–315 B.C. Culture:Greek Medium:Gold Dimensions:18 mm. Classification:CoinsCredit Line:Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1905"

"Gold coins of this type were minted for over forty years at the two principal royal mints in Macedon, Pella and Amphipolis. The trident and details of the horses' legs on this coin indicate that it was minted at Amphipolis in the years immediately after the death of Alexander the Great.“

Picture 7

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: SavoyRoman,georgia,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 2em; vertical-align: baseline;">Reproduction of the "Throne of Minos"


“Period:Late Bronze AgeDate:ca. 1700-1425 B.C. Culture:Minoan Medium:painted plaster Dimensions:Other: 58 1/2 x 25 x 33 3/4 in. (148.6 x 63.5 x 85.7 cm) Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1906" "The Metropolitan commissioned from Sir Arthur Evans a plaster cast of the gypsum throne at Knossos in 1906, only six years after the excavation of the original. The blackened areas reproduce in paint the parts that were scorched during the final conflagration of the palace at the end of the Late Minoan IIIA2 period (ca. 1300 B.C.). Evans dubbed this seat the "Throne of Minos" after the legendary king for whom he also named the Minoan civilization.The original is in the throne room of the palace of Minos at Knossos.”

Picture 8

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: SavoyRoman,georgia,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 2em; vertical-align: baseline;">Limestone sarcophagus: the Amathus sarcophagus


“Period:Archaic Date:2nd quarter of the 5th century B.C. Culture:Cypriot Medium:Limestone Dimensions:Overall: 62 x 93 1/8 x 38 1/2in. (157.5 x 236.6 x 97.8cm) Classification:Stone SculptureCredit Line:The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76"

"The Amathus sarcophagus is arguably the single most important object in the Cesnola Collection and unique among ancient Cypriot sculptures in its monumentality and in the preservation of its polychromy. The primary scenes on the long sides show a procession of chariots escorted by attendants on horseback and followed by foot soldiers. The main personage is probably the driver, who is standing under a parasol in the first chariot. His horses, as the others, are richly caparisoned; his chariot resembles the others also, except that the wheel has fewer spokes. The decoration of the short ends consists of a row of Astarte figures, nude except for their double necklaces and ear caps, and a row of Bes figures. The choice of these two deities, one Near Eastern, the other Egyptian, suggests the importance of procreation to the deceased. The figural panels are framed by a variety of vegetal ornaments, while the gabled lid once featured a pair of sphinxes and a palmette at each end. The sarcophagus probably belonged to one of the kings of Amathus. The procession scenes provide a glimpse into his world. The iconography as a whole, moreover, documents the thorough integration of Greek, Cypriot, and Oriental features in works of high quality at the middle fifth century B.C.”