Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Black-Figure Pottery, Sophocles, Dionysia
11 Jun 2016
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Most pots in the archaic period have black figures on red backgrounds. Classical period has exact same technique but have red-figures (orange) on black background. Pots that don"t use black figure technique and then are elaborated with other techniques. Pots with weird handles -> starts off as black-figure but then they paint with colours to elaborate (very rare and not in good shape) Impossible: can"t do something bad on purpose, can"t rationally decide to make yourself and others unhappy. Reason always leads you to your own happiness. Hallmark of greek thought: reliance on reason, that human beings are reasonable. Socrates" star student plato"s star student is aristotle. Aristotle is a pupil of plato, from the school that he built in athens, the. Plato was after truth, wisdom, and believed that you could use reason to arrive at that. Aristotle was the first true research scientist, makes advances through observations, looks for answers in the natural world.
