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Tuesday's Anthro Classes
[OOC: You know the drill. I'm posting all three classes here, you post comments if you want to participate. And actually doing the homework (aka writing an essay) is not necessary, all that's necessary is commenting to the thread if you want to be marked as present]
Africa:
[will be discontinued as there is a whopping one person to the syllabus. unless other people want to join]
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Greek & Roman Archaeology
Slide identification! Please report to me with your favorite piece of art or architecture from Greece or Rome. Please tell me the date it was found, the date it was originally made in, the site, and any other important information you find while researching it.
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Linguistics:
Quiz on the Greek alphabet!
Take out a sheet of paper and write out the greek alphabet in order.
Your homework is to study page 180 in your Linguistics book, which has a complete record of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Africa:
[will be discontinued as there is a whopping one person to the syllabus. unless other people want to join]
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Greek & Roman Archaeology
Slide identification! Please report to me with your favorite piece of art or architecture from Greece or Rome. Please tell me the date it was found, the date it was originally made in, the site, and any other important information you find while researching it.
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Linguistics:
Quiz on the Greek alphabet!
Take out a sheet of paper and write out the greek alphabet in order.
Your homework is to study page 180 in your Linguistics book, which has a complete record of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Homework
Re: Homework - Greco-Roman Arch
"The Clementia Sarcophagus was carved c. 170 AD and bears the same maker's mark as two other pieces of statuary from the same time period, implying that sarcophagi were not carved by specialized funerary stone sculptors, as previously thought, but by artisans. The Clementia Sarcophagus was discovered almost two hundred years after the other sculpture relics bearing the mark, several thousands of miles south. The placement of the original relics indicates the Clementia Sarcophagus was most likely carved north of Rome, and sent overland to its final resting place near what is now the Vatican City. Officials at the Vatican believe the sarcophagus to contain the remains of one of Rome's earliest religous leaders. That belief is, however, incorrect. The sarcophagus contains the remains of Lucius Aurelio Gustavus, called Clementius, a Roman centurion who won recognition for his extreme measures of mercy on the field. He was one of few Roman war leaders who absolutely prohibited looting and rapine of captured domains, and also sent plebes who would not accept Rome's sovereignty to organized olive farms instead of condemning them to death. His mercy and compassion made him a viable contender for Caesar of Rome, Commodus, and since Lucius lacked the rampant insanity of Commodus, a far more popular candidate. This is why, in 170 AD, Marcus Aurelius, Augustus Caesar of Rome, had Lucius murdered. As an interesting historical note, it was discovered after his death that Lucius was, in fact, female, but that fact was quickly covered up and has remained a fact lost to history until now. MRI imaging of the sarcophagus clearly shows the entombed skeleton is female. The mystery and complete irony surrounding the history of this sarcophagus place it among my favorite pieces of art."
Re: Homework - Greco-Roman
Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed
By British hands, which it had best behoved
To guard those relics ne'er to be restored.
Curst be the hour when from their isle they roved,
And once again thy hapless bosom gored,
And snatch'd thy shrinking gods to northern climes abhorred!
Lord Byron, "Childe Harold"
The Parthenon marbles, formerly known as "the Elgin Marbles", were carved between 447 and 432 BCE as part of the construction of the Parthenon. Three separate sets of sculptures, the metopes, friezes, and pediments comprised the decoration. They were never "discovered" as they'd never been lost. Rather their beauty was known and celebrated throughout the ages. Then, in the early 1800s, 1801, when Greek Antiquities became popular in Europe, one Lord Elgin received a permit to take certain statues from the Parthenon. The stripping of the Parthenon occurred over several decades, with statues being taken down and shipped to England. As late as 2005 (is that now?) these marbles are still being housed in the British Museum, despite the attempts of Greek patriots and many Brits to return them to the Parthenon.
Re: Greco-Roman
Do you believe the enemy have sailed away? Or that any Grecian gifts are free of craft? Is this the way Ulysses acts? Either Achaeans hide, shut in this wood, or else this is an engine built against our walls...Do not trust the Horse, Trojans. I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.- Virgil, The Aeneid
Scholars have yet to agree on a date for this sculpture- some place the creation sometime during the late 170's BC, vhile others believe it closer to 42BC to 20BC. Nonetheless, in its style and subject matter, Laocoon is a fine display of the Hellenistic aesthetic, vith its tvisted, writhing forms, and the expressions of agony on the faces of Laocoon and his two sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeus, as they are strangled and devoured by the serpents of Poseidon. Laocoon is not the work of vun, but many sculptors; namely, the craftsmen Hagesander, Athenodorus of Rhodes, and Polydorus.
The statue vas lost until the early 16th century, vhen it vas unearthed in Rome (sans Laocoon's right arm, later found and replaced.) Zis massive, tragic vurk vas said to have impressed and influenced many of the early Renaissance artists, the most notable being Michaelangelo and Raphael.
(I vasn't sure if you vanted information on the subject itself, Dr. Jackson. I can append and include that as vell, if you vish? [Zat is, the story of Laocoon and exactly *vhy* the gods decided he should be eaten alive by snakes.])
Re: Homework
The Tombs of the Kings is the name given to a complex of tombs located by the coast on the northern side of Paphos. They seem to have been the tombs of the ruling élite during the Hellenistic period and the earlier part of the Roman, even if they were not kings.
The tombs are cut into the native rock, and at times imitated the houses of the living. In this respect they echo the tombs of Hellenistic Alexandria and other contemporary complexes such as that recently excavated at Marina el-Alamein, 76 km west of Alexandria.
Although the tombs have been known and casually explored for centuries, they were first subjected to systematic excavation in the later 1970s and the 1980s under the direction of Dr Sophocles Hadjisavvas, now Director of Antiquities of the Republic of Cyprus.
Dr Hadjisavvas has turned over to research students of the University of Sydney the preparations of the finds for publication.
Part of the importance of the tombs lies in the Paphian habit of including Rhodian amphorae among the offerings in a burial. Though the manufacturing stamps placed on the handles of these amphorae, it is possible to give them a date and, through them, the other material from the same burial.
Thus, it is hoped to develop a more secure chronology for archaeological material in the Eastern Mediterranean of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods.