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 Please tell me the date it was found, the date it was originally made in, the site, and any other important information you find while researching it.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 Please tell me the date it was found, the date it was originally made in, the site, and any other important information you find while researching it.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