ARTH 1380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Krater, Amphora, Direct Democracy

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 1380
• Professor: Judith Steinhoff

Document Summary

To become citizen, they need to be a male and a landowner. Females, slaves, lower class isn"t able to purchase their citizenship. They believe in many gods, the people are polytheistic. Socrates(teacher), plato, and aristotle(his student) is an greek philosopher. They are made as an trophies for their victory of the competition. Usual function: a bowl like shape, use for mixing with wine and water. Actual function: this was place on the grave at the dipylon cemetery. It has a holes on the bottom to pore libations as an offering to the gods, based on the dead. Both of them has the subject matter placed on the wider part of the area. Greek decoration is more linear and has patterns. At the upper place, a figure is lay down. All of these figures at the top is mourning and grieving for the dead. These figures are women(the closest are the family members) Evoke of the feminine shape of the body.