Ancient Greece Unknown period of history of Greece from end of Mycenaean civilization to Classical civilization- approximately BCE Steady, unbroken progression and evolution in art from about 700 BCE to about 400 CE Independent city-states with a different form of government in each-kings, nobles, tyrants, democracy, etc. Interest in humanity “Man is the measure of all things”-Protagoras, 5th century BCE Progression styles attempt to reach the “ideal”
Funerary Vase, BCE, Geometric Dipylon Krater Meander/keys
Pitcher, (Olpe), ca. 600 BCE Horror Vacuii
Exekias, Amphora with Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game, ca. 540 BCE, Archaic Black figure painting Amphora
Euthymides, Amphora with Three Revelers, 510 BCE, Archaic Red Figure painting Hubris: “Euthymides made me as never Euphronios could do”
Euphronios and Euxitheos, Death of Sarpedon, ca. 515 BCE, Archaic Red Figure Kylix
Pan Painter, Artemis Slaying Actaeon, ca. 470 BCE, Classical Red figure Bell Krater
Achilles Painter, Woman and Maid, ca BCE, Classical White Ground Lekythos
Man and Centaur, ca. 750 BCE, Geometric
Lady of Auxerre, 7th century BCE, Oriental Daedalic
Calf Bearer, 560 BCE, Archaic Kouros figure
Peplos Kore, Archaic, 530 BCE, Archaic Kore figure peplos
Anavysos Kouros, Archaic, 530 BCE
Polykleitos, Spearbearer or Doryphoros, BCE, Classical Contrapposto Antithesis Chiastic Cannon
Riace Warrior, BCE Lost-wax bronze casting
Kritian Boy, Classical, 480 BCE
Myron, Discus Thrower or Diskobolos, 450 BCE, Classical
Alexander the Great, Four Drachma coin, BCE, Hellenistic
Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos, Moasiac, 1 st century CE Mosaic Tesserae
Praxiteles, Hermes and Dionysos, late 4 th century BCE, Hellenistic
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, 350 BCE, Hellenistic
Epigonos (?), Dying Gaul, 220 BCE, Hellenistic
Nike of Samothrace, 180 BCE, Hellenistic
Laocoon Group, 1st century CE, Hellenistic
Old Market Woman, 1 st century CE, Hellentistic Realism
Alexandros of Antioch-on-the- Meander, Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo), BCE Archaism