CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Black-Figure Pottery, Great Rhetra, Spartan Constitution

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

Document Summary

Signs of return = homer the iliad (800-750bc) Development of new greek warfare, hoplite soldier (collective fighting) > name comes from heavy bronze shields. Fight in phalanx format (densely packed rectangle) Dark age art was unknown, little effort or interest in the arts during this period as people were just trying to survive. Greeks had to relearn lost arts of the minoan and mycenaean period. Signs of life in art (i. e. birds) Orientalizing period = animal forms replacing geometric line designs (8th and 7th century bc) Began portraying human forms and used pottery to depict human life (black figure pottery) Athenians developed red-figure vase, much more realism in human form. Egyptians were the first to capture human and god form in sculpture. Egyptian art was static as they wanted to suggest continuity and sameness over time, where as greek(cid:835)s wanted to move forward.