Ancient Greece-Hellenistic Flashcards
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The Theater Epidauros, Peloponesse Hellenistic 3-1 CE
Medium
- Stone
Function
- Serve as entertainment and education for civilians
- depict mythology and teachings in a new way
Appearance & Relavence
- built in 4bc
- Semicircle construciton
- Built into hillside
- Overlooked performance area :orchestra
- Steps to give audience access
- Seats divided into uniform wedge sections
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Dying Gual (Epigonos?) Hellenistic 3-1 CE
Medium
- Marble
Function
- Commemorate defeat of the guals
- Show non-greeks as non-civilized
- Show enemies as formidable foes
- moment in time of sequence of events
Appearance & Relevance
- Human suffering emphasis
- expression of pain of face
- naturalism yet non classical
- non-ideal body type
- losing life force sensed
- struggles for support
- twisting pose
- leaning head
- part of large sculputral program
- kills wife then self
- Sense of sequence of events
- Distinctive features
- thick brow
- thick long hair
- mustache
- golden chord
- wears tort
- Meant to be seen from all side
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Nike of Samothrace Hellenistic 3-1 CE
Medium
- marble
Function + Subject Matter
- part of larger sculpture
- commemorate victorious greek oficcer at sea battle
- moment in time from sequence of events
- mean to be outdoors
Appearance
- Hold laurel wreath or garland
- on prow of ship
- by fountain surrounding wall
- over life size 9ft
- she was flying then alighted
- shows theatricality
- more naturalistic than normal
- drapery is naturalistic
- sense of blowing wind
- ideal body
- thin drapery folds accentutates forms
- form is sensuous, non-erotic
- follows line of s
- dramatic
- sense of environment/sky
- movement is expressed
- non-contraposto
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Aphrodite of Melos (Alexandros) Hellenistic 3-1 CE
Medium
- Marble
Function + Subject Matter
- found on Melos island
- godess of love/beauty
- made for wealthy individual
- referenced to iliad
- figure is from narritive
- judgement of paris, began trojan
- sequrence of events
Appearance + Relavence
- life size
- look at refletion in shield (reaveals beauty to herself or lover
- not covered (supposed to be)
- robe rolled down to hip, reveal bod
- sensuous
- neutral expression
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Seated Boxer from Rome Hellenistic 3-1 CE
Medium
- bronze original
Function + Subject Matter
- Show common man boxer in naturistic setting
- moment in time of sequence of events
Appearance + Relevence
- more naturalistic
- slumped, defeated pose and face
- beard
- used classically for maturity
- body age is apparent
- Diff proportions used
- body is muscular
- Signs of fights
- broken nose
- califlour ear
- wooden knuckle
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Old WomenHellenistic 3-1 CE
Medium
- Marble copy
Function + Subject Matter
- show common elderly on way to religious fest
- demands emotional viewer response
- moment in time of sequence of events
Appearance + Relevence
- Realism
- wrinkled face and nake h
- unched over
- bones showing
- breast is sunken and falling out
- unfocused stare
- wreath of ivy leaves (connection to dionysis god of wine)
- she is going to a festival b/c
- carries dead chicken
- carries fruit
- elegant yet untidy dress
- hair is not in disarray
- forms and texture show virtuosity
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Laocoon and His Sons from Rome Hellenistic 3-1 CE
Medium
Function + Subject Matter
- moment in time of sequence of events
- homer’s iliad based from
- vergil’s Aeneid from
- prophet and foretold trojan demise
- athena sent serpents
Appearance +Relevance
- contrast with light and shadow
- very dramatic and theatrical
- twisting and curling forms
- boys on tiptoe
- boys and Laocoon have idealism in naturalism
