Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lion Gate, Red, Tydeus

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Christopher Brown

Document Summary

Playing a game- doesn"t replicate any scene from epic. Our evidence is principally in the form of vase painting. From 11th-8th centuries bc vases were decorated without images. Many styles of vases/ pots: storage, serving, drinking, part of domestic landscape of ancient. Vases of this sort are thing people would place in graves filled with offerings- being in a grave protected them so many have survived today. After ca 750 bc a new style emerges with increasing emphasis on figures and scenes of action: late geometric period (ca 750- 700 bc) Orientalizing" period because contact with ancient asian art helped influence greek art. The firing process had three stages: fired and oxidized at high temperature with air circulating, reducing conditions of high temperature, wood-smoke, no air, oxidizing 2 (red colour, but black gloss remained black) The result was pottery with red and black colour- two principle colours ancient artists used.