Krater

• 6 feet tall
• Anthropamralized (human like in figure)
• Mouth, neck, shoulders, arms etc.
• Pre-literate Greece

Topography

• Rugged Greek main land
• Some city states had access to more raw materials than others, making them more powerful.

Herakles and Nessos

• Epic struggle
• Centaur - half man half horse
• Warriors brought back wild tales of half centaurs that were always horny and intoxicated.

Mantiklos Apollo

• We don't know if this is Mantiklos making an offering to Apollo or a depiction of Apollo himself.
• Solid cast bronze, nude, male form (the embodiment of perfection)
• Geometric
• The Geometric Period is distinquished by geomentric patterns on vessels and carved forms.

Corinthian Black Figure Amphora

• The best example of the Orientalizing period.
• Orientalizing - borrowing images and motifs from other civilizations and incorporating them into their own art.
• The city state of Corinth was rich in trade.
• Black figure technique/Orientalizing style

Black Figure Vessel

• Developing a visual vocabulary to tell their oral stories.
• Directly inspired by the Odysee.
• Odyseus trying to outsmart the cyclopse Polyphem.
• A burial vessel, found chunks of bone that were determine to belong to a 7 year old.
• Comparing the child's own potential (had he not died) to their heroic ancestors.

Plan of Temple A

• Inspired by the Megaron.
• Simplified.

Lintel of Temple A

• Female figures resemble seated Kore

Lady of Auxerre

• Could represent a Kore or goddess
• Kore - the first ancient Greek attempts at representing the human figure in stone.
• Painted brightly
• Encaustic - the waxy-like substance that statues were painted with (wax mixed with minerals and applied hot).