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Art of Ancient Greece

Art of Ancient Greece. Major Periods Geometric Period 900-700 BCE Orientalizing Period 700-600 BCE Archaic Period 600-480 BCE Athens has a representative government; every community (deme) had its own assembly and magistrates. 4. Classical Period

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Art of Ancient Greece

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  1. Art of Ancient Greece

  2. Major Periods • Geometric Period 900-700 BCE • Orientalizing Period 700-600 BCE • Archaic Period 600-480 BCE • Athens has a representative government; every community (deme) had its own assembly and magistrates

  3. 4. Classical Period framed by the defeat of the Persians (479 BCE) and the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) Early Classical 480-450 BCE destruction of the Persian fleet in the Straits of Salamis, 479 BCE 5th Century Classical 450-400 BCE Pericles rebuilds the Acropolis, he dies in 429 BCE Sparta dominated the Peloponnese and much of the rest of mainland Greece;

  4. 5th Century Classical 450-400 BCE (continued…) • Athens dominated the Aegean and became a wealthy and influential center of a maritime empire • the series of conflicts between Sparta and Athens became known as the Peloponnesian Wars (641-445 BCE) • 4th Century Classical 400-330 BCE • Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE at the age of 32 • 5. Hellenistic Period 320-21 BCE • Cleopatra died in 30 BCE

  5. Terms and Stuff • city-state -- a polis • an autonomous region having a city as its political, cultural, religious, and economic center • for example: Athens, Sparta, Corinth or Thebes—remember Antigone • a stoa –colonnaded pavilion, open on three sides • stadium • sanctuaries • Mount Olympos • Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi (the oracle of Delphi)

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