Postgraduate Course: Classical Greek Sculpture (PGHC11316)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | In-depth examination of the key monuments and themes of Greek sculpture, free-standing and relief, from ca.480 to 323 BC, with a special emphasis on styles, iconography, materials, and functions of Greek sculpture in their original contexts. |
| Course description |
Statues and reliefs in marble and bronze were a pervasive presence in the landscape of ancient Greek cities. They stood in private and public spaces alike and are among the most enduring legacies of ancient Greece. Free-standing statues dotted civic centres; architectural sculpture decorated major monuments; and sculpted stone slabs were erected on top of burials, therefore shaping interactions with the gods, the living, and the dead.
The aim of this course is to explore the styles, iconography, materials, and functions of Greek sculpture in their original contexts covering topics such as the development of bronze as a large-scale medium, the revolution in seeing and representing known as the 'classical style', Greek funerary sculpture and portraiture, the 'statuescape' of the main Greek sanctuaries and the uses of Greek sculptural motives by non-Greek Eastern dynasts in the fourth century BC.
Questions to explore include: What purpose did sculpture serve in ancient cities? How were these works, small and large, bronze and marble, produced? How were they seen and understood in their original contexts? How does their form, material and iconography reflect their function? Which themes got represented in sculptural form? What can we learn about the classical world from the study of Greek sculpture?
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- research skills in classical archaeology
- in-depth knowledge of key monuments of Classical Greek sculpture
- a greater understanding of Greek religion and history
- the ability to collate and understand methodological difficulties in reading archaeological and written sources, both ancient and modern
- skills to analyze material and written sources for the ancient world and to craft and express arguments in written form
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Reading List
Donohue A., Greek Sculpture and the Problem of Description (Cambridge 2005)
Hochscheid, H. Networks of Stone: Sculpture and Society in Archaic and Classical Athens (Oxford 2015).
Jenkins, I. Greek Architecture and its Sculpture (London 2006)
Neer, R. The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture (Chicago-London 2010)
Palagia, O., ed. Greek Sculpture: Function, Materials, and Techniques in the Archaic and Classical Periods. (Cambridge 2006)
Pollitt, J.J., The Art of Ancient Greece: Sources and Documents (Cambridge 2008)
Richter, G.M.A. Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks. 4th edition (Yale 1970)
Rolley, C. La sculpture grecque (Paris 1994-1999)
Spivey, N. Understanding Greek Sculpture (London 1996)
Stansbury-O'Donnell, M.D., Looking at Greek Art (Cambridge 2011)
Steiner, D. Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (Oxford/Princeton 2001)
Stewart, A.F. Greek Sculpture: An Exploration (London 1990) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | classical greek sculpture |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Diana Rodriguez-Perez
Tel:
Email: drodrig4@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Katherine Perry
Tel:
Email: kperry2@ed.ac.uk |
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