Greek Art and Archaeology

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In each chapter there are textboxes introducing additional historical, cultural, and artistic material.

The ancient Olympic Games began in 776 BC and ran for over 1000 years, waning during the Roman Empire and the advent of Christianity. The damage is visible in the Carrey/Pointel drawing, which dates 13 years before the explosion, so it was not caused by that catastrophe.

At the same time, pertinent archaeological, literary, and historical material could be integrated into each unit, resulting in a seamless presentation of the material.

Perhaps the woman buried in the Agora tomb died before marriage, Stansbury-O’Donnell posits, in spite of her having reached maturity. Building, art and political government were modelled after ancient Greek examples and the ancient Greeks played a pivotal role in the identity of the western world, at least up until World War II.This richly illustrated, four-colour textbook introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through to the Roman conquest. This approach, however, has always been problematic for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it runs the risk of creating the impression in students’ minds that Greek art underwent a stylistic evolution over time from abstraction in the Early Iron Age to naturalism in the Hellenistic period and that, in the case of Roman art, the trajectory was in the opposite direction. It features remarkable Greek, Roman, and Etruscan objects from the Tampa Museum of Art, as well as other international and significant collections. As it is, Tuck has created the impression, evident throughout most of his text, that Roman art primarily consisted of monuments that served to promote elite, imperial values.

She does not pursue a selection/omission of works that strives to achieve novelty for its own sake, as current handbooks are apt to do. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Therefore, many criteria for organization suggest themselves, but each, whether chronology, function, style, subject matter, region, or some other factor, is at once problematic and constricting. Proceedings of the International Conference Organized by the Belgian and French Schools at Athens, 26-28 September 2012 “For good ye are and bad, and like to coins”: why bother with seal-impressions.Additionally, if Stansbury-O’Donnell had focused on fewer objects, he might have been able to incorporate the major monuments more successfully into their cultural milieu. Comparing the strengths and weaknesses of these survey texts has prompted this reviewer to pose a question that may appear to some as heretical: does the long-standing approach to teaching a comprehensive ancient art survey course have a place in today’s undergraduate curriculum?