FAH207H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Opus Vermiculatum, Hellenistic Greece, Lysimachus
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Lecture 7: hellenistic greece and the beginnings of rome. *late 5th bce (peloponnesian war) yellow parts: athens and allies red part: peloponnese. *mid 4th c bce (rise of macedon) the colonized greece: disappear. King of macedonia: alexander the great ambition to expand to the east. *tomb of persephone, vergina:hades carrying off persephone: 340 bc. Maybe from royal tombs of macedonia, some people think the tomb is. Not seen before (vase painting: drawing, two colors and outline), wall painting/monumental painting did not survive before. Most of them exists on wooden panels; this is an exception and a late one; Subject matter: hades carrying off persephone; persephone"s abduction by hades; ^central action: hades just grabbed persephone into his chariot. ^on another wall (left side): a figure of demeter: she is already mourning for the loss of her child, contemplated mood/sad mood; in the sequence of the narrative is a later time;
