Chapter 5. The Art Of Ancient Greece
This week we will be looking at art work from the Ancient Greece, in the eastern Mediterranean Sea that had trade relation ships with the Near East, Ancient Egypt, the Cyclades and nations/tribes in the western Mediterranean Sea. Another words these people where contemporaries, for example we saw their influence represented as sculptures of Gods when we looked at the religions of ancient Egypt.
The Greeks were prodigious writers and story tellers. We still use there stories today for movies and in theater, as in the “Greek Tragedy”. They invented dramatic creation myths that include relationships between the Gods and humans. They established the role of the Hero or Nike, and introduce the concept of good and evil in their mythologies. This currently translates to super heroes.
Most important the Greeks established the idea of Democracy, although it was narrow and limited to male citizens in ancient Greece.
The video lecture is long. Pause it when you need to and restart it when you want. Watch the entire video lecture. As an experiment I included the quiz. at the end or the lecture. I am not sure it works as well so I also posted a link to the quiz as a separate video.
1. Read Chapter 5, The Art Of Ancient Greece.
2. Watch the video lectures. The second video includes the quiz for this chapter.
3. Watch or read any supplemental material. Both videos are very informative.
4. Take and submit the quiz.
5. The following week we will have our midterm that covers chapter 1- chapter 5 and consists of 60 questions. There will be no lecture for the week of the midterm.
