The Greek World
Chronology of Ancient Greece
Iron Age 1200-600 BC
Sub Mycanean/Sub Minoan
Proto Geomentric
Geometric
Orientalizing
Archiac 600-480 BC
Classical
Early Classical
Geometric Period
Greek Vase Painting
No human, animal, or plant figures
Geometric Decorations
End of the Geometric Period, figures reappear
Geometric krater from the Dipylon
cemetry, Athens
Geometric, ca.
740 BC
Large
Men carrying shields
funerary percession?
laying figure covered with cloth
flanked by people with hands on head, sign of mourning
Orietnalizing Period
Intro to alphabet
Artist Signatures
Orientalizing amphora with animal
friezes from Rhodes, Greece, ca.
625-500 BC
Kleitas and Ergotimos (artists), Francios vase.
Archaic, ca. 570 BC
Francios Tomb
over 200 character
Krater-wine mixing
Amphora-storage
Kylix-drinking (painted interior)
Exekias (artist)-known for detail and the moments he depicts
Archiac Period 540-530 BC
Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game
score is shown
Exekias (artist)
Suicide of Ajax
different because others show after death
Exekias (artist)
Archaic
Achilles and Penthesileia (queen of the Amazons)
Fall in love before he kills her
Psychological Scene
Andokides Painter
Archaic Period 525-520 BC
Front
Back
Bilingual: black figure and red figure
makes the switch from having black figures into red figures
Euphronios (artist)
Archaic 510 BC
Krater
Herakles wrestling Antonios
experimentation with body angles
Euthymides (artist)
Archaic 510 BC
Revelers
Trying to show dancing and twisting
"As Euphronios never could do"
Niobid Painter Early Classical 450 BC
Artemis and Apollo slaying the children of Niobe
easily can see the angles and movement of the body
Subject Matter Of Greek Art: Gods and Heroes
Zues (head God, beard, adult male, throne, eagle, thunderbolt), Hera (wife of Zues), Athena (long dress, armed, owl, goddess of thoughtful war), Ares (God of Brutal war), Hermes (messenger of the Gods, wings, hat, messenger staff)
Athena's birth
Poseidon (god of the sea, beard, trident, fish), Hades God of the Underworld), Demeter (nothing grows in the winter while Demeter mourns), Persephone (Demeter's daughter, abducted wife of Hades)
Poseidon
Aphrodite (goddess of love), Eros (aphrodites son, god of erotic love, cupid), Ares Aphrodite has an affair with him), Hephaistos (ugly husband of Aphrodite)
Aphredite
Apollo (never shown bearded, bow and arrow) and Artemis (long or short dress, hunting)
(twins)
Apollo and Artemis
Dionysos (god of wine, crazy, unpredictable, grapes, drinking vessels, with followers, bearded and then beardless)
Dionysos
Herakles (hero)
12 labors
1. Kills a lion (always wears a lion skin)
2. Beats a creature with a club (shown with a club)
Theseus (hero) (from athens, minotaur)
