Meets the following requirements: AD HS HY

This course focuses on Greek art from Bronze Age Crete to Alexander the Great.  Beginning with the Minoans and the Myceneans in the second millennium and moving on to the Dorians in c. 1000 B.C., the class traces the fusion of these three cultures in the pottery, sculpture, and architecture of classical Greece.  The final portion of the course surveys the cultural and artistic contributions and the legacy of Periclean Athens.  Among the themes in the course are:  the implications for style in a goddess oriented society vs. a god oriented society; the place of the myth of the hero in the evolution of consciousness; and the contribution of idealism to the arts of the period.  Readings include:  Maitland Edey's Lost World of the Aegean ; Mary Renault's Bull from the Sea; C. Bowra's The Greek Experience; Rhys Carpenter's Greek Sculpture; Euripedes' Bacchae; Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy; Plato's Phaedrus, and Eva Keuls' The Reign of the Phallus.  Evaluations are based on class participation and on two papers.

Level:  Introductory.  Offered every other year; may be part of full-time in Greece. Class limit: 20.  *HS*  *HY*  *AD*