CAS CL 101 Lecture 19: Lecture 19_Greek Art_Greek Philosophy.pdf
20 Mar 2015
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Lecture 19: greek art (ii); early greek philosophy. Symposium - important social aristocratic institution in archaic greece. Sculpture - followed near eastern and egyptian models, but during the archaic age they developed a greek version of beauty. Refresher on periodization of greek history (+ geography) Bronze age greece (15-12 century bce) mycenaean greeks. Dark ages (11-9 century bce) called dark ages because we don"t know a lot about what happened during that time. One important event: greeks spread from the mainland to the islands in the aegean sea (e. g. the island of lesbos where the poets alcaeus and sappho were from) and to the coast of the asia. Minor (ionia) where several important settlements were built (e. g. miletus, ephesus). Further migration to west (italy) and east (black. Expanding because they wanted to increase control of the sea routes and places to grow crops. Note: the bottom half of italy was considered to be more greek because of this expansion.
