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Attica
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Attica #12
Attica in 6 BCE
2nd half of century rule by Peisistratos and sons
took power by force but popular rule
roads to outlying city embellished with public monuments
At least one major temple: Akropolis, sanctuary for Athena
Greater Dionysia: festival of Dionysus, competition of tragic chorus
Greater Panathenaia: recital of Homer
510 BC overthrown, but Athens became a center
Symposium
symposiarch: master of the event, lay down rule and order, decide number of Krater to drink, decide ratio of water and wine
Krater: mixing bowl
Water to wine Ratios, 3:1 5:3 3:2
Athenaeus:
Drink with me, play music with me, love with me, wear a crown with me, be mad with me when I am mad and wise with me when I am wise.
Before and after 500 BC: artists began to favor athletic scenes: permit depiction of nude body in greater variety of poses.
Colmar painter: circle influenced by Euphronios and Onesimos
67442 terracotta hydria: kalpis
kalpis: water jar
/ what are the dotted leaves represent? Sexual implication?
phiale
libation bowl
First wine from Krater is dipped out in a phiale and offer to gods
/ Attic (from Geometry 8th to 6th) seem like to draw figures with long feet, exaggerated muscle by making ankles super skinny
psykter
vase for cooling wine
Dolphin would seem to leap and dive as psykter bob in cold water inside a larger krater
Stamnos
jar typically with lid
Occasionally included in depiction of symposium, thus indicate that stamnos hold wine
961851 stamnos
/ bigger feet indicate more importance? Dionysius has the biggest
1660 Hydria
Red figure technique introduced around 530BC
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phalanx: army formation
? Shield pattern: human leg, like Isle of Man?
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Soldier bidding farewell is a popular vase painting theme
Funerary Monument
Attic Stele development
580-530 tall shaft, separately carved capital, usually protective sphinx (earlier ones have cavetto captical, concave sides)
End of century, shaft decorated with painted image, carved in one piece with volute-and-palmette finial
subject of Ajax carrying Achilles body was popular in 6th BC
Iliad ended with him Alice, but other epic poem describe his death at the gates of Troy
Kouros
/ follow the painted principle of big butt, 胯部 triangular lines, nose straight from forehead
Amasis Painter
Kerameikos: potter quarter, developed black figure by mid 6
560-515 Amasis, could both be the painter and potter; Greek form of an Egyptian name
Figure painted in profile with little overlap, nude youth stand proudly one leg advanced like Kouros
/ muscle and ankle, feet not so exaggerated
06102169 amphora
Two similar but very different scenes
56111 lekythos
earliest and most complete representation of Attic wedding
/ very detail representation of architecture at the time
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/ seems like Amasis like to do small variations between scenes on two sides of amphora
arming himself in one and in full panoply in the other
Boustrophedon (ox turning)
End of 6th, inscription were sometimes written in alternative directions
Phoenician right to left
Greek borrowed the alphabet but found left to right to be more convenient
Like ox turn with the ploughing at the end of each furrow
Oil flask is associated with athletes
aryballos suspend from artist, oil was used as a cleanser after exercise
Sphinx: lion body human heads, known in many forms across Eastern Mediterranean from Bronze Age onward.
Greek depict as winged female, often place on stele as guardian of the dead