FA 30a Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Kouros, Narmer, Ancient Greek Temple
Document Summary
There was an institution that was established by the ancient greeks. They came up with the concept of the gym for physical exercise, and where they did there discus and wrestling ect. Warmer climate, so one can spend a lot of the year comfortably nude. Skin would have been tan, hair black, lips pink. The death is sad, there is a finality and a sense of him being gone. Excerpts from an elegiac poem by mimnermos around 600 bce : At this point in greek art, women would not be represented in the nude. We are leaves in bejewelled springtime growing. They were human in appearance but with superhuman powers. Had many treasuries with no windows and a single door. Siphnian treasury, detail of frieze, battle of the gods and giants. Greeks believed that the gods lived on mount olympus. The were experimenting with different forms of storytelling through the human. In the archaic period of ancient greece body.
