GREEK ARCHITECTURE

Greek temples
Friezes: long continuous art pieces
Metopes: friezes but divided by triglyphs
Caryatids: sculpted columns with figures on them
Tholos: you can circumambulate around them
Pediment
Doric (basic), Ionic (horns), Corinthians (plants)
Parthenon
Athena Parthenos (the virgin goddess)
Stands as a symbol of enduring time
Idealized temples
The pillars grow in girth
Athena (olive tree) vs. Poseidon (salt water spring)
Erechtheion
Agora
Pottery
Kylix: drinking cup
Krater: mixing vase
Amphora: store grains, liquids, wine
Lekythos: storing oil
ATHLETICS
Pythain, Olympian, Nemean, Isthmian games
Statue of a Diskos thrower
Required strength and rhythm
Panathenaic amphora
Long distance foot race
Comparisons with today
Training
Hygiene
Strength and fitness
Audience
The Olympic games
Women weren't invited to participate or spectate
Sports were peformed naked
Important athletes
Milo of Croton: greatest wrestler/fighter
Cynisca of Sparta: first woman to win the games
GREEK THEATRE
The City Dionysia
Greatest events of the Athenian year held in spring
Held in honor of the god Dionysus
Dramatic competition with some of Athens' best
Four day long competition that took place in the southern slope of the Acrop
olis
Other theaters were in Delphi, Epidaurus
"Theatron"
There were up to 4-5 plays performed in a day
A majority of the audience were men

The Chorus
Thespis was the earliest recorded actor ("father of tragedy")
Plays originated from religious choral choirs
The Stage
Low stage and stage building ("skene") behind the orchestra
Stage props were kept to the minimum and did not represent realistic backgro
unds: rhetoric was more important.
"Paradoi": arched entrance through which actors entered the stage.
Parts of a Greek theatre
Altar
Skene
Deus ex machina was a common plot device: a crane was used to lower actors p
laying gods onto the stage.
Costumes
Actors in tragedies wore majestic flowing robes to portray heroes
Actors in comedies wore padded costumes to distort their figures in a comica
l way
All actors wore masks as their means of identification
Theater Masks
Tragedy
Disasters, bloody revenge, problems of conscience.
They discussed the most profound aspects of Greek culture
Aeschylus' Oresteia
Sophocles' Oedipus
Euripides
Comedy
Chorus would appeal to audience for loud applause so their play would win
Themes involved slapstick comedy, which often ridiculed those whom the poet
disagreed with.
Aristophanes' Clouds
Epidaurus
Acropolis: the entire hill
Parthenon: most important building on said hill
Theater: on the slope of the Acropolis