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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 Please tell me the date it was found, the date it was originally made in, the site, and any other important information you find while researching it.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 Please tell me the date it was found, the date it was originally made in, the site, and any other important information you find while researching it.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.
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.