ONLINE LECTURE RESPONCE

Harmons's Intro to Egyptian and Greek 

In the chapters readings and the YouTube online lecture I've learned the values and rituals of the Egyptian people. Egypt is surrounded by the Nile river, it is the longest river in the world. This river is where most of the Egyptian people were provided food, commerce and protection. They also believe in life after death. This belief influenced them to bury the people who passed with artifacts to help guide them in the afterlife. An example of an artifact used to be buried was the hippo who was buried with a god. The hippo being such fierce animal was buried with a leg broken so that it wouldn't be able to harm the god in the afterlife. Another ritual the Egyptian people had was to shave off there eyebrows to mourn the passing of the family cat. The cat in Egyptian times represented the goddess of happiness. The Egyptian people also created art to symbolize there beliefs. An example of this is the statue of a ram head with a human body form, this structure they believe helped with fertility. One more example would be the cobra sitting on the falcons head, it repented kingship and unity for the family. One of the most beautiful women ruled during the Egyptian times was Nefertiti ruling with her husband from 1352 B.C-1336 B.C. Nefertiti mean beautiful women has come. This royal family also believed in one gob the sun which they believed was the symbol of life. In the Painting of there family you see them looking towards the sun and the suns rays as it gets towards them turns into hands, almost as if to be inviting them.

In the Greek culture the human form was considered to be the highest creation of nature. Many of the Greek art are of sculptures of the nude male human body. These art sculptures were created based on observation and mathematics. One of the first female nude sculptures during Greek times was a carving of Venus standing about five feet tall. This represented a new and modern idea nude structures, but it was still refined and kept a very modern pose. Another structure of a women was Aphrodite somewhat naked around the back area she stood. Aphrodite was the goddess of love born after her father was castrated by his son and his testicles where thrown in the water. While this happened she was created in the water and the water led her to land. After this period of time came the Hellenistic period from about 320 B.C to 30 A.D. This was the time of the Roman conquest of Egypt. More of the art work started to show more expression and emotion. One example of this was the carving of the  Laocoon group, the structure shows the priest and the men souring him in great agony. The story behind the structure was that the priest warned them about bringing the trogen horse and as a result they were attacked by serpents as shown in the carving. During the 2nd century B.C Rome became a major ruler, ruling over many people and cultures.