Week-5 Resources
The Week-5 Resources
Art of the Hellenistic Age
The Metropolitan Museum of New York City, one of the great repositories of Western Culture,
discusses Hellenistic art on this page. Examples of such art are also shown as well as references
for further reading. Check it out.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/haht/hd_haht.htm
The Parthenon Frieze
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/parthenon/flash/main.htm Links to an external site.
Much can be learned about an ancient society by studying its art. The art of the Parthenon is some of the most famous in the world. It tells us much about what the Greeks valued and how they lived. Care to play the archeologist? A frieze is "the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain or-in the Ionic or Corinthian order-decorated with bas-reliefs." What is an 'entablature'? Use a good dictionary and look it up!
The Los Angeles Museum of Art
Seeing the past through videos and images is an excellent way to learn and understand the past. But nothing beats seeing the actual objects from the past. Luckily, you live in one of the Great Cities of the Modern World. Its resources are vast.
The Los Angeles Museum of Art (LACMA) is one such resource. It has a vast section on Greek antiquities (i.e. ancient Greek things, such as jewelry and pottery). For a paltry fee (and using your student discount), all of those artifacts are available to you, the student. Why not visit it?
To learn more about LACMA's hours and days, click here:
http://www.lacma.org/
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Sappho, Woman Poet of Ancient Greece
http://www.poemofquotes.com/sappho/ Links to an external site.
Sappho was born between 630 BC and 612 BC on the small Isle of Lesbos in the town of Eresos. Although little is known about Sappho's life, educated guesses can be drawn from her writings. Even more about her can be drawn from her poems. Eights of these poems and a short biography are provided when you click on the link above.
The Democratic Experiment
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/greekdemocracy_01.shtml Links to an external site.
What's in a word? We may live in a very different and much more complex world than the ancient Greeks, but without the ancient Greeks we wouldn't have the words to talk about many of the things we care most about. Take politics for example: apart from the word itself (from polis, meaning city-state or community) many of the other basic political terms in our everyday vocabulary are borrowed from the ancient Greeks: monarchy, aristocracy, tyranny, oligarchy and - of course - democracy.
The Cave Allegory of Plato and The Matrix
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/allegory.html
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Lord Elgin: Savior or Vandal?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/parthenon_debate_01.shtml Links to an external site.