Greece - Greek Art
Ancient Greece produced some of the most impressive works of art ever and remain the standard, especially in fields like sculpture and architecture. Architecture includes such things as walls, but here it's more limited to monuments where the architects, using the various orders could make five-story columns for the exterior of the gods' temples. The Greeks also developed styles of pottery and crafted almost human life-size sculptures.
- Archaeology
- Doryphoros (2)
- Greek Architecture
- Greek Artists - Sculptors
- Greek Black Figure Vase
- Herm (2)
- Jewelry
- Museums of Greek Art
Terpander
From Lesbos, Termander is known for his contributions to music.
Kylix
The kylix is a type of pottery drinking vessel used by the ancient Greeks.
Kantharos
Kantharos is the name for a Greek drinking vessel.
Greek Pottery
Pictures of Greek Pottery.
Chryselephantine
Chryselephantine was a material of Greek statues.
Acanthus - The acanthus is a plant that was used in Greek and Roman Art
The Greeks and Romans used the acanthus in their ornamental decorations.
Odeum
Glossary entry on the Periclean odeum.
Timanthes
Timanthes was a Greek painter known for his Iphigenia.
Amphora
Glossary entry on the two-handled jar known as an amphora.
Black Figure
The identifying properties of black figure pottery.
Review Thomas Cahill - Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
If we have problems with people who are racist, classist, and sexist, as Cahill says the ancient Greeks were, they must have other redeeming characteristics. They developed art, adapted Egyptian mathematics, added vowels to the Semitic consonants to produce the alphabet, produced innovations in various literary fields, created science and philosophy, and introduced the democratic system.
Love, Sex, and Tragedy, by Simon Goldhill Book Review
Book Review of Simon Goldhill's Love, Sex, and Tragedy, a new answer to the "Why study classics?" question.
Art History 101 - Greek Art (An Overview)
The periods of art in ancient Greece - dark age, Mycenean, geometric and proto-geometric, archaic, classical and hellenistic art.
Heracles in Ancient Art
List of images on the topics of life and death and the labors of Heracles. Images found on the Perseus site.