CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pergamon Altar, Polykleitos, Stoicism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Died in babylon speculated he was poisoned through his wine. When he died his empire died with him. War between his successors, empire split up. Classical period ends and the hellenistic period starts. During this period the major schools of philosophy are born. Art emerged in the 800s, greatly improved through archaic period and reached its peak in the classical period, then it declined in the hellenistic period. 5th century art was the best, the classical artists (polykleitos) Emphasized idealized view of the world: perfection, best standard of greek art. Instead of idealism, realism (portrays life as raw and grotesque) Hellenistic art viewed as weaker, or a degeneration. Hellenistic art is an honest view of life, emotionality. Classical art is emotionless and detached, unreachable. Pergamon altar is where many of the hellenistic pieces of art were found (diffusion of greek culture outside of greece)