Flashcards
Study guide
- Compare and contrast the information we have about Athens, on the one hand, and Sparta, on the other hand. What lesson does this give us about the importance of material remains in evaluating the significance of a city?
- Inspect the multi-period city plan of Athens (Figure 14.1). What are the major sectors, buildings, and features that you have encountered so far (Iron Age and Archaic period)? Describe the appearance and the function of each.
- Describe the techniques and subject matter of decorated pottery of Athens.
- Describe the production of sculpture in Archaic Greece: forms, materials, and subject matter. Where would an Athenian have seen sculpture on display?
Useful websites
- Athenian Agora excavations: http://www.agathe.gr
- For Greek pottery and sculpture: Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art): http://www.metmuseum.org/toah
Images
Figure 14.1
City plan, Athens, Iron Age through the Roman Empire.
Figure 14.2
Plan, Agora, Athens, ca. 500 BC.
Figure 14.3
The Nessos Amphora. Protoattic vase, ca. 615 BC, found in Athens. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Figure 14.4
Three revelers, on an Attic red-figure amphora painted by Euthymides. From Vulci. Antikensammlungen, Munich.
Figure 14.5
Colossal kouros, Heraion, Samos: (a) front; (b) back of head; and (c) side. Archaeological Museum, Samos.
Figure 14.6
Kleobis and Biton. Archaic kouroi found in Delphi. Archaeological Museum, Delphi.
Figure 14.7
Kore no. 682, from the Athenian Acropolis. Acropolis Museum, Athens.