We also accept a degree that has been taught and assessed in English from a university on our list of approved universities in non-majority English speaking countries (non-MESC). The narrative flows smoothly, each monument is treated fully and clearly, the sense of development over time is maintained, as is the rich variety of Hellenistic artistic experience, yet the potentially disorienting fissures of the Hellenistic world disappear into a coherent and cohesive account. Beaumont (Contribution by); Hood Museum of Art Staff (Contribution by); Helene Foley (Contribution by); Mark Golden (Contribution by); Katherine Hart (Contribution by); Jill E. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Students will gain skills in analysing artefacts and built environments and learn to connect these to critical historical narratives of ancient Greece.

Additionally, if Stansbury-O’Donnell had focused on fewer objects, he might have been able to incorporate the major monuments more successfully into their cultural milieu. By way of brief illustration, one can look at what is surely the most inherently difficult section in any Greek art text: that dealing with the Hellenistic period. Teaching a survey course whose objective is to offer undergraduates an overview of either Greek or Roman art in one semester is fraught with many challenges.Working just steps ahead of the Metro construction, archaeologists labored to preserve the ancient city, removing entire foundations intact. Through concise, systematic covering of the main categories of classical monuments, the reader is taken to a tour of ancient Greece along the most spectacular period in its history, the 1st millennium BC. If you are not a national of a majority English speaking country, then your degree must be no more than three and a half years old at the beginning of your programme of study.

P.224 – “The fourth century sculptor Lysippus was reputed to have made men as they are and not as they appear to be, as was the practice of earlier sculptors. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Much that has structured the previous treatment—for example, the sequencing of styles in art or the polis-based environment in which works were created and received—give way in the Hellenistic era to far more heterogeneous phenomena.The material is presented in a way which makes this important evidence available to students who are not specialists in the Classical languages or Classical archaeology. We will study the built environment - from the great urban monuments to everyday domestic units (including temples, ‘homes’ for the gods).