ART 112 Lecture 2: Ancient Greek Art
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Ancient greek art: 11 pieces of greek art, divided into male figures and female figures, now looking at region just north of egypt, distance from sd to san francisco. C. 500 330 bc: classical period. It becomes the official style of revolutions: about 100 years ago it finally fizzles out, egyptian is to pylon as greek is to temple front, greek philosophy. As for certain truth, no man has known it, nor shall he ever know it, neither of the gods, nor of all the other things of which men speak. Democritus (c. 415 bc): nothing exists except atoms and empty space everything else is opinion : much less anagogical then egyptians, he coined term atom, greek political culture. Pericles is like the thomas jefferson of 5th period democracy, took gov by the people, representative government. In cemeteries like a tombstone/headstone over a deceased male.
