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5th Grade Art
ΜΕΡΥ ΜΠΑΑΜ
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Mary Baum
TWU
EDUC 5131
Spring 2011
What does this
mean?
“It’s Greek to me”
is a phrase
claiming that an
expression can not
be understood,
either because it is
complex or an
error.
http://www.ubuntux.org/black-screen-during-installation-please-help-me
It may be used
with respect to
expressions with
a lot of jargon, or
language of the
disciplines of
math, or science.
http://www.stuffintheair.com/mathematical-precitions-ofweather.html
It makes
reference to the
Greek language
and the Greek
alphabet.
Why do you think
that is?
http://www.selu.edu/admin/greeklife/its_all_greek_to_me/index.html
Greek: Parthenon
Roman: Coliseum
http://www.powerplaces.org/emailpromo/crete_2006_conference/
http://newmexicoindependent.com/24755/roman-coliseum-to-be-litin-honor-of-new-mexico
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum
The Coliseum was a place where a lot of people could sit
and watch entertainment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum
http://www.romanlife-romeitaly.com/ancient-romancolosseum.html
It was built of concrete and marble and limestone.
The entertainment
was mostly people
killing animals, or
people killing each
other. It was
almost exactly like
a football stadium
today.
http://www.roman-colosseum.info/
Real
http://www.thecowboyscentral.com/2011/02/cowboys-stadium-stillseeks-deal-for-official-name.html/
Imagined
http://wizardinglife.com/tag/quidditch/
The Parthenon
was a temple to
Athena built on
top of the highest
hill in Athens, the
Acropolis
(Acropolis means
High City).
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Parthenon.htm
http://www.students.sbc.edu/mdavis04/Parthenon%20Gallery%20of%20Images.htm
http://puffin.creighton.edu/eselk/introphil_on-line-course/Intro-phlol_Plato_Apology-Crito/Parthenonhistory-sculpture_pg3.htm
The architects of the Parthenon set out to make it the
best temple ever. Most Greek temples had six columns
across the front – the Parthenon has eight.
Inside the temple, the
architect carved a huge
statue of Athena made
out of gold and ivory.
Athena, the Greek
goddess of wisdom, war,
the arts, industry, justice
and skill.
http://arthistory.sdsu.edu/568/568_1/1_3.html
http://www.mounta
inviewcoins.com/Li
ncoln_Cents.php
http://www.visitingdc.com/memorial/lincoln-memorial-picture.htm
http://www.weblo.com/asset_image/466
133/78955/The_Lincoln_Memorial/
Greek: Parthenon
Roman: Coliseum
http://www.powerplaces.org/emailpromo/crete_2006_conference/
http://newmexicoindependent.com/24755/roman-coliseum-to-be-litin-honor-of-new-mexico
Roman Empire 27 BC – AD 1453
In art Romans were influenced
by the Greeks who were
absorbed into their empire.
http://www.artic.edu/cleo/MapItaly.html
Classical Greece 500-338BC
It was the great age of developing
ideas in art, science, politics and
more.
http://www.artic.edu/cleo/MapGreece.html
Very few Greek painted
pictures have survived
the 2500 years since they
were painted. So most of
what we know about
Greek art comes from the
pictures they painted on
fancy pottery.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/24.97.30
Pottery, even if it gets
broken, can be put back
together, and a good deal
of it has even survived
whole, mostly in
Etruscan tombs.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1976.11.5
But by around 450 BC,
just eighty years after the
invention of red-figure
painting, hardly any
vases were still being
produced. We don't
really know why this
happened.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/31.11.11
Maybe the Athenians were
rich enough that they didn't
need to sell their pottery to
other people. Also, the
Etruscans, who had bought a
lot of this pottery, were no
longer doing very well by 450
BC, and maybe they couldn't
afford to buy Athenian
pottery anymore.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/wor
ks-of-art/56.11.1
Both kinds of Greek Pots
have pictures that tell a
story.
What story will you put on
your clay pot?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgyc
7zq
rmXU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0
peUY2cfeE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/co
losseum.htm
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/par
thenon2.htm
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/athena.html
http://www.artic.edu/cleo/index.html
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome
http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/History/
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/pottery/gree
kpots.htm