Greek Philosophy

Greek Philosophy 

Beginning of Philosophy

 

Socrates

Plato

Plato - a virtual lecture

Aristotle

Aristotle - more serious

Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

Tragedy: the Basics

History of Theatre 1 - From Ritual to Theatre

History of Theatre 2: Development of Classical Greek Tragedy

Homer and his writing

Oedipus

Oedipus

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles: first performed in 429 BCE

Greek Mythology

Greek Mythology

1. The Olympians

A list of the Greek gods dwelling on the Mountain Olymp

Mount_Olympus - wikipedia

2. List of Greek mythological figures

Wikipedia - to get started!

Twelve of the Greek gods

Greek Sculpture

The Greek Sculpture

1. Statue of a Kouros

Statue of a Kouros

2. The Development of the Greek Sculpture

Classical and Hellenistic Sculpture

The Winged Victory of Samothrace

The Winged Victory of Samothrace

Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer)

Polykleitos' Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer), an early example of classical contrapposto. 

The Doryphoros by Polykleitos

Laocoon and his sons

Laocoon and his sons

Greek Architecture

The Classic Order (Greek Architecture)

1. Doric [ The Parthenon]
Of the three columns found in Greece, Doric columns are the simplest

2. Ionic
The Ionic order follows after the Doric order and is more elaborate.
 [go to the following website to get all three orders explained http://www.cmhpf.org/kids/dictionary/classicalorders.html ]

3. Corinthian

The Corinthian order is the most decorative and is usually the one most modern people like best. 

 

An overview and summary 







Professor Kenney Mencher  on the Classical Order



The names of these orders derive from the geographical places they were used first.

Doris and Ionia are regions in Greece

Ref: Ionia. 2013. [image]. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionia . [Accessed 5.6.2013]

and Corinth was a city

Ref: Corinth. 2013. [image]. Available at: http://8170.pbworks.com/w/page/37864131/Corinth. [Accessed 5.6.2013]

Parthenon

NOVA: Secrets of the Parthenon

Parthenon

Homage to the Parthenon Marbles

The poem recited is by Lord Byron

Canto XV from 'Childe Harold's 

Pilgrimage' by Lord Byron, 1812

Cold is the heart, fair 

Greece, that looks on thee,

Nor feels as lovers o’er the dust they loved;

Dull is the eye that will not weep to see

Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed

By British hands, which it had best behov’d

To guard those relics ne’er to be restored.

Curst be the hour when their isle they roved,

And once again thy hapless bosom gored,

And snatch’d thy shrinking Gods to northern climes abhorr’d!

Parthenon

Professor Kenney Mencher - The Parthenon

Parthenon

The History of the Parthenon

Building - Destruction - Restruction....

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Parthenon.htm

The Parthenon

The Parthenon

Athena Parthenos (replica)

http://venetianred.net/tag/classical-greek-sculpture/

Greek Vases 1

Culture of Competition: Euphronios and Euxitheos: Mature phase, years of mastery

Greek Vases 2

Greek Vases 3

How to make a Greek Vase

Greek Vases 4

Professor Kenney Mencher on Greek Pottery

Greek Vases 5

Terracotta hydria ca. 510–500 B.C. water jar, black-figure vase

Greek Vases 6

Volute-krater , Archaic (~500-530) vase for mixing wine and water

Greek Vases 7

Archaic; red-figure Amphora, ca. 530 B.C.; 

Greek Vases 8

Typology of Greek vase shapes

Democracy

Athens, dawn of democracy, 

Episode 1&2, Part 1/10

Timeline of ancient Greece 1000 BCE to 1 AD

Please click on the headline

Greece: Map

Ref: Greek Sanctuaries. 2007 (image). Available at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_greek_
sanctuaries-en.svg [Accessed 5.6.2013]

Greece: European Map

Ref: Europe map. 2013 (image). Available at: http://geology.com/world/europe-satellite-image.shtml . [Accessed 5.6.2013]