Loose ends from Early Civilization and Dynastic/Empirical Growth Periods

Early Civ/Ancient Greek Timeline

Minoan Greece ~3000 bce-1500 bce

Mycenean Greece  1600-1100 bce (Helladic Greece)

Greek Dark Ages .... very little work remains from 1100-900 bce:

Early Greek Geometric Style 900 bce-700 bce

Orientalizing Period: ~750-600 bce

Archaic Period 600-480 bce 

Classical Greek Period 480-323 bce 

The Hellenistic Period (323 B.C.E.–31 B.C.E.)

Mediterranean connections

Minoan 'Palace' Architecture

Mycenean 'Fortress' Architecture

We've covered differences in Minoan, Mycenean, and Archaic Greek  Style through studies of figures. 

Now: "Classical Antiquity"

Classical Greek Period 480-323 bce 

The Hellenistic Period (323 B.C.E.–31 B.C.E.)

 Writing (Defined as a method for representing the sounds of language) Emerged: 

Mesopotamia c. 3400 – c. 3100 BC, 

in Egypt c. 3250 BC, 

in China before c. 1250 BC, and 

in Mesoamerica before c. 1 AD.

Egypt loose ends: 

Egyptian stance does not have a name-- just "extreme frontality." Here a useful, if very simple, description of the emergence of Contrapposto as a valued stance in the history of art. 

View of pyramids from tourist site

Another tourist site photo

The population of Egypt during the Old Kingdom, so about 2500 BCE,  was 1.6 million; in 1800, it was about 2.5 million; today it is 116 million. 

Cairo and Giza (home to the pyramids) are essentially cocntiguous, as Lior said last week. It's just over 3 miles from the center of one to the other.

From Giza/Cairo metropolis