ARTH 2102 Lecture 13: ARTH2102 - March 6, 2017
12 Apr 2017
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Set out around the mediterranean and black sea. Eastern (turkey, egypt, palestine) in uence in greek culture. Mesopotamia does hybrid animals the best (modern day iraq) Egyptian, but also appear in persia, in greece, and etc. Head of a lion, horns of a sheep or something, eagle legs, lion legs, wings. Part viper, viper scales, front legs of a lion, eagle legs, scorpion stinger. Horror vacui - fear of empty spaces, feeling you must ll all the empty space. Goats, lions, wild boars, bird body with the head of a women. Sun rays coming out the base - the last thing from the geometric period that survives (a little old fashioned) Geometric base, horizontal strips of human activity. Earliest depictions of the earliest type of warfare - hoplite (heavily armed) Phalanx - multiple rows of hoplite soldiers (formation of the soldiers) Upper frieze is quite important to history. A guy playing the double ute - give commands.
