And hellenic colonization

decorated parts now missing

(hexagonal): geometric and naturalistic motifs

1. 
   embossing
   
2. 
   inlay: silver and gold, also niello (metallic alloy of sulphur
   

with painted decoration on cheeks and chin

1. 
   many shapes, but the stirrup jar is the most typical
   
2. 
   decoration: esp. fr. 13^th cent. on Minoan influence, therefore
   

a) fish

c) shelled molluscs

(1400-1200 BC)

1) group of heroes in the boat Argo

2) they sailed to Colchis

3) in search of the golden fleece (in actual fact: in search of real gold)

is ca. 1250 – if it ever happened at all – so the poet is telling of a

tale which is in a setting of about 500 years ago)

2) fall of Troy (the wooden horse, etc.)

the Aegean (from island to island, also coastal navigation)

Western Anatolian sites

b. Çandarlı

c. Miletus

d. Müskebi

king against Myc. attacks

levels of Western Anatolian sites

1) naturalistic decoration totally absent

2) geometric decoration only

b) bands and lines

1) naturalistic scenes reappearing

a) floral, faunal, human and other

b) highly stylized

c) in restricted panels

e. Lebedos

f. Colophon

g. Ephesus (Apasa of the Hittites)

h. Priene

i. Myus

k. Smyrna (founded somewhat later than these)

2) then the island is annexed to the shore (Bayraklı suburb of Smyrna

today)

3) the archaic temple of Athena was important: of Aeolic order

of Lydian wooden temples, now lost, but depicted on rock

monuments)

- the earliest in Samos (Heraion)

- then in Anatolia proper

- then in Greece

b) ground plan: megaron (basic Western Anatolian and island house

plan from Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age on)

decoration on pottery

1) sphinxes (body: lion, head: human)

2) griffons (body: lion, head: bird)

Proto-Corinthian

pottery: shift now more to the naturalistic w. less geometric decoration.

Egyptian influence)

2) very little movement

3) interest in the naked human body already present, esp. male

a) young boy: kouros, mostly naked

b) young girl: kore, mostly dressed

4) “archaic smile”: corners of the mouth upturned

1) in Greece

a) Corinthian: plain background, drawings in dark brown (purplish)

on all the available surface

because of the chemical composition of the black paint)

- mostly black painted overall or wide bands

- black figures in light preserved background

- preferred a lot in all the Hellenic world of the Mediterranean

preference for the Attic black figure

b) Phidias (responsible for the sculpture of the temple of Athena

Parthenos in the Acropolis, Athens)

c) Polycleitus

d) Cresilas

“Hippodamian plan”)

b. regular insulae: square or rectangular

c. usually two main streets cutting each other at a certain point

d. major buildings usually at the junction point of the main streets

a. open square

b. stoa: gallery of columns (usually around the square)

c. shops behind the stoa

and the youth

a. U shaped area w. seats around

b. not all cities necessarily have it

c. for athletics and races

a. for music and poetry contests

b. small enough to be closed by a roof without having a forest of columns

c. amphitheater form

d. not all cities have an odeion

a. cavea: amphitheatre built on a hill slope

b. diazoma: walks of the cavea in line with the orchestra

c. loge: seats of honour near the orchestra

d. skene: stage building

1) acting is done on the skene

2) earlier theatres do not have permanent skenes

e. proskene: front part of the skene

f. orchestra

1) complete circle form: the early ones

2) semicircular form: later ones, esp. from Hellenistic Per. on

3) where the chorus sings and dances