CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Tom Lehrer, Fellatio, High Culture
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Cla 219 women in antiquity: h schele. **midterm will cover everything up to the last class before it. Know the authors, the titles of the works, especially the big ones (most discussed in class) Know roughly the dates of the sources. Representative of health, grace: generic image of aristocratic womanhood, represented worshippers of athena or the goddess herself. Male version called kouroi often naked as opposed to its fully clothed female counterpart (archaic art) **our sense of what antiquity is is conditioned by how thay have come down to us. If statues have survived with their paints intact, we would"ve thought that painted statues are the norm instead of the monochromatic ones. But statues were polychromous in antiquity paint just didn"t survive: polychromy = multicoloured. Statue of paris on the west pediment of the aphaia-temple (aigina: painted as if he"s of eastern origins (i. e. , trojans depicted as foreigners, painted clothes were patterned and very detailed.
