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Classical Greece

Classical Period 500-339 BC "Classical" means: Standard against which others are judged or evaluated Greatest Enduring Stylistic form (music, art, etc) Stylistic period (e.g. after Baroque) Golden age of a civilization

Classical Period or The Golden Age of Greece Centered in Athens Began Revolt of Greeks in Ionia (coast of Asia) against the Persians Eventual defeat of the Persians Battles of Thermopylae and Marathon Athens expansionism and colonization Delian League Peloponnesian War Between Athens and Sparta/Corinth Lasted 27 years and was won by Sparta/Corinth Pericles "Ideal" ruler of Athens Builder of Acropolis Used money from the Delian League for city improvements Is creativity adversely affected by war?

Daily Life Population:300,000 Adult Males: 50,000 Women: Slaves: Not able to participate in government Protected by law Seemed to be "generic" Slaves: Did menial work Foreigners

Daily Life Greeks had few material possessions Houses were simple Food was simple Religion was important Common temple rituals Seeking favor of the gods Loyalty in worshiping gods of the polis Belief in a single God was advocated by a few (disloyal?)

Drama Festivals of Dionysus (God of Wine) Method of presentation Playwrights submit 4 plays for competition Method of presentation Actors with masks Chorus Acoustics Reserved seats Dry seats Mechanics Themes Trojan war characters and their descendents Ethics from Heroic period

Drama Tragedy Genre invented by Thespis (543 BC) The most common of the genrés Of about 1000 written, only 31 remain – all by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides The change that occurs due to difficulty Not about a person dying Aristotle’s Poetics describes ideal tragedy Tragic defect—weakness in character that leads to the difficulties or that must be overcome

Drama Aeschylus (525-456 BC) Aware of human weakness Discusses pain and suffering In the end, justice triumphs Oresteia trilogy about the House of Atria Agamemnon The Libation Bearers The Eumenides (The Furies)

Drama Sophocles (496-406 BC) Friend of Pericles Great prestige and wealth Wrote 123 plays, but only 7 exist Sophoclean tragic heroes Have tragic defects Are likeable and we feel sorry for them Introduced two-actor interaction Conflict: Tradition and loyalty to king (Antigone) Good intentions and fate (Oedipus the King)

Drama: Sophocles Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) Epitome of Greek tragedy Fate has powerful hold on humans Before his birth, destined to kill father and marry mother (revealed by oracle) Conflict between fate and attempts to control destiny Inherent moral outrage of marrying mother and/or killing father

Drama: Sophocles Antigone Thebes attacked by Polynices (son of Oedipus) Polynices was fighting his brother Both were killed in battle Creon, the new king, forbade Polynices’ burial Antigone, Polynices sister, buried him Antigone was condemned to death Creon’s son was engaged to Antigone Creon revoked his penalty, but only after Antigone and Creon's son had committed suicide

Drama Euripedes (484-406 BC) Expressed disillusion because of the war Acknowledged powers of gods in fate, but did not respect them Characters pushed to the limits of endurance Deep hatred for war

Drama: Euripedes Medea Barbarian princess (on the coast of the Black Sea) Helped Jason find the golden fleece against her father's wishes They married and had two sons Medea was ostracized for marrying foreigner and had to flee with Jason to Argos (in Greece) Jason later married a younger woman Medea sent magic robe to the bride causing the bride to burn to death In further retribution against Jason, Medea also killed her two sons

Drama Aristophanes (450-385 BC) Father of Greek comedy This genré ends happily It is not necessarily funny Theme—futility of war The Birds Lysistrata Poked fun directly at Sophecles and Aeschylus Creative Project: Play about Aristophanes in the BYU library who meets a young woman who agrees to write a play in which he can demonstrate his superiority to other Greek playwrights

Music Plato believed in ethos Music molded the soul The power of music to influence people’s lives Music molded the soul Musical scales (Pythagoras) Role in Greek dramas Role in development of Opera Instruments: Lyre, Cymbal, Tambourine, Pipe

Art Pre-classical Simple pottery Geometric designs Migration to human forms (perfect symmetry) Sculpture-generalized to be symbolic of all humans Relation to Forms Generic Without dramatic expression Lacked realism

Art Classical Sculpture Great advances Greek principles important Technical ability Reality Perception of inner qualities Greek principles important Exact proportion—Golden mean Phidias—greatest Greek sculptor Parthenon, Temples in Olympia Vases Why painted? My Greek vase

Architecture Initial temples were simple and rectangular Column styles Two columns at entrance Columns around perimeter (peripteral) Column styles Doric Ionic Corinthian

Architecture The Acropolis: Parthenon

Architecture The Parthenon Erected by Pericles as a tribute to Athena Funding from Delian League Phidias was sculptor in charge Combined Doric columns with Ionic features Columns are thinner at the top Tip towards each other Corners thicker Floor is convex

Architecture The Parthenon (cont.) Single main room-statue of the goddess Later classical period lacked innovation and boldness of earlier period

History Herodotus (484-420 BC) Father of History Tried to record coherent history Traveled widely Books called Researches Made judgments based on humanness Most writing were about Persian wars

History Thucydides (470-405 BC) Prominent soldier/historian Removed from command for failure in battle Inserted important speeches into history Criticized because he could not have heard all these speeches His history ended before the war Probably died in war

“Leisure is the basis of culture” --Aristotle

Thank You

“The psychological conditions which make a society or an epoch creative and consistently original have been little studied, but it seems likely that social conditions analogous to those seen in individual creativity are important. Freedom of expression and movement, lack of fear of dissent and contradiction, a willingness to break with custom, a spirit of play as well as of dedication to work, purpose on a grand scale; these are some of the attributes which a creative social entity, whether vast or tiny, can be expected to have.” — Frank Barron, Institute of Personality Assessment and Research, University of California, Berkeley

Architecture Nomenclature

Architecture Proportion was a major design factor Temple of Zeus at Olympia

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