[ARTH 2102] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (45 pages long!)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 2102
• Professor: Susan Downie

Document Summary

Greek art has been incredibly influential on the western world. Unesco funding project - massive reconstruction project. Athens (5th century bc) was when it was at it"s heightened wealth and power. You are turning athens into a painted whore . They are never the richest or the best culture. They are actively taking things from other cultures - letters, numbers, etc. Begin on the main land of greece and then settled anywhere they could find empty space they colonize. Southern italy - sicily - manga graecia. Spreads greek culture into africa, turkey, and iraq. North india influence from all these cultures were taking greek culture into them, vice versa. This is where our earliest towns developed. A name from mythology - the island. Waterway between asia and europe - connecting to the black spot. Asia minor - anatopia - where the sun rises. Archaic and classical periods > 800 - 323 bc. With the death of alexandre the great.