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"An Assessment of Athenian Democracy" - Anonymous Author

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"An Assessment of Athenian Democracy" - Anonymous Author

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This document discuses the Athenians choice to enter a democracy. Brought up is the roles of the "good" men and the roles of the other people in the city. Also discussed is other forms of government. What is the authors overall feeling towards these democracies?
(Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations, 57, pg 217)

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This drawn map shows the set up of the city state Athens. It includes the Partheon on the Acropolis in Athens, and other temples and important buildings.

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This video discusses the day to day life of Athenians during the Peloponnesian war. Take notice the difference in roles of woman and men and the importance of the images on terracotta vessels.

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A day in the life of an ancient Athenian - Robert Garland

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Dated around 400 BC this figure shows Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture. She is shown with a pig, linking her and the success of the agriculture of the Greeks.

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Aristophanes was an Athenian comic poet. He wrote the "Lysistrata" during the Peloponnesian War to express his own want for the war to end in a safe way. How does Aristophanes depict the women of the different city states? (Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations, 59, pg 227)

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This bronze statue was created by Athenian sculpture Praxiteles. The statue is called "Apollo the Python-Slayer"

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Apollo the Python-Slayer

(Greek, c. 400BC-c. 330BC)

Fun Fact

Apollo, son of Zeus and Leto, is depicted as an adolescent rather than a mature god.

Description

This bronze sculpture of Apollo formerly known as "Sauroktonos," or lizard-slayer, is attributed to the renowned Greek sculptor Praxiteles. The survival of an original bronze sculpture attributed to a known artist in ancient Greece is extraordinarily rare. This sculptor is otherwise known only from Roman marble copies of his works.

Gill, David. Context Matters 'The Cleveland Apollo Goes Public' The Journal of Art Crime 10 (Fall 2013): 71-75. Mentioned: p. 71-75

Snyder, Colleen, Ernst Pernicka, and Peter Northover. "The Cleveland Apollo: Recent Research and Revelations." In Colloque International Sur les Bronzes Antiques. Artistry in Bronze: The Greeks and Their Legacy: XIX International Congress on Ancient Bronzes, Jens Daehner, Kenneth D. S. Lapatin, and Ambra Spinelli, eds., 329-340. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Conservation Institute, 2017. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 329-340

Todisco, Luigi. Prassitele di Atene: scultore e bronzista del IV secolo. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider editore, 2017. TAV. XII Reoroduced: TAV. XII

Childs, William A. P. Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. Princeton, NJ: Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, in association with Princeton University Press, 2018. Mentioned: p. 195; Reproduced: p. [439] pl. # 182

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{{cite web |title=Apollo the Python-Slayer |url=https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.30 |author=Praxiteles |year=c. 350 BC |access-date=10 March 2019 |publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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(Greek, c. 400BC-c. 330BC) Apollo, son of Zeus and Leto, is depicted as an adolescent rather than a mature god. This bronze sculpture of Apollo formerly known as "Sauroktonos," or lizard-slayer, is attributed to the renowned Greek sculptor Praxiteles. The survival of an original bronze sculpture attributed to a known artist in ancient Greece is extraordinarily rare.

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This map shows the location of Ancient Athens and its position on the mainland. Athens also had some access to the sea.

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This vessel from around 450 BC depicts the battle between the Greeks and the Amazons. The vessel was used to mix wine and water.

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Hauser, F. 1909. Griechische Vasenmalerei Serie II pp. 297-303, pls. 116-17, F. Bruckmann.

Pottier, Edmond. 1912. "Études de céramique grecque." Gazette des Beaux Arts, 2: p. 455, ill.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 107, fig. 66, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Richter, Gisela M. A., Marjorie J. Milne, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1922. Shapes of Greek Vases. New York.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 138, 140, fig. 95, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 138, 140, fig. 95, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Richter, Gisela M. A. and Marjorie J. Milne. 1935. Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases. p. 7, figs. 51-52, New York: Plantin Press.

Richter, Gisela M. A. and Lindsley F. Hall. 1936. Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 98, pp. 126-29, pls. 97, 98, 171, New Haven: Yale University Press.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1944, 1949. Greek Painting: The Development of Pictoral Representation from Archaic to Graeco-Roman Times. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1946. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. p. 102, fig. 74, New Haven: Yale University Press.

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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 86, 227, pl. 67a, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1957. Amazons in Greek Art. no. 7, pp. 161, 200, 202, 209, 220, pl. 74, 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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Bandinelli, Ranuccio Bianchi. 1966. Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale, Vol. 7. p. 74, fig. 106, Rome: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1970. Perspective in Greek and Roman Art. p. 23 n. 3, fig. 88, New York and London: Phaidon Press.

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von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1972. "Greek Vase Painting." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 31(1): no. 24, pp. 7, 56-7, 68.

Barron, John P. 1972. "New Light on Old Walls the Murals of the Theseion." The Journal of Hellenic Studies, : pp. 25-28, 34, 35 n. 115, 39, pls. IIa-b, IVa.

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Attributed to the Painter of the Woolly Satyrs | Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) | Greek, Attic | Classical | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Hauser, F. 1909. Griechische Vasenmalerei Serie II pp. 297-303, pls. 116-17, F. Bruckmann. Pottier, Edmond. 1912. "Études de céramique grecque." Gazette des Beaux Arts, 2: p. 455, ill. Richter, Gisela M. A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 107, fig. 66, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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This vessel is dated to the end of the 6th century BC. This ceremonial water vase shows funeral rituals.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum

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Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water) | Greek, Attic | Archaic | The Met

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On the body, obverse, prothesis (laying out of the deceased) with mourners; reverse, mourners On the neck, obverse and reverse, mourners On the subsidiary frieze, horsemen The iconography of this vase is canonical for a loutrophoros. Of interest is the subsidiary frieze of horsemen.

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This helmet from around 500BC was excavated in Athens in 1883. The extensions on the helmet covering the cheeks may or may not belong to the original piece. (British museum)

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This document records the different constitutions the Athenians upheld within their government. What changes most consistently between constitutions?

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The Internet Classics Archive | The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle

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The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle, part of the Internet Classics Archive

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Doll found in Athens in 1865, estimated to be from 350 BC.