Greece

Democracy and Aesthetics: Greece toc More information can be found at Quiddity Tours

=Introduction=

//Democracy and Aesthetics in Western Civilization: The Greeks// is an intensive summer-school interdisciplinary English course that explores the first humanist time period in European history by visiting actual sites in Greece. Students study a European period that distinctly resonates with our own American culture: the ancient world of Hellenic Greece—the time period and political form our Founding Fathers turned to when setting up the American government. Examining aesthetic forms such as literature, architecture, two-dimensional art, and sculpture, the course focuses on how the art and artifacts of Hellenic Greece came into existence and what they meant to the culture that produced them, as well as why we look at those pieces and that culture with such a keen interest and familiar feeling. Students also study how politics and economics played a shaping role in Hellenic Greece and in the creation of the artifacts we consider to be the founding literature, art, architecture, and thought of the West.

We will study how cultures reveal their values in the products and practices they create and support by examining how Hellenic Greece emerged and comparing it to contemporary American culture. We will study the roles of the artist and the changing notions of art over time. Along with practicing the skills of writing, research, and viewing, students will also hone basic skills in communication and thinking. Students will practice communicating—in clear, precise, and articulate forms—their understanding of what we Americans can learn today about democracy through the aesthetic objects of the first democracy. Students will also study genres of visual communication such as video documentary, slide shows, and graphic representation by writing, shooting, and producing their own visual communication of their journey. The course will end with a public display of learning.

Water, Technology, and Democracy in Ancient Greece, by Lucy A. media type="file" key="water and technology in Ancient Greece.mp4"

What Is a Throughline? == =Articles for Study: General=

@Humanities Approach Articles
=Articles for Study: Throughlines= The articles are arranged by site, and within each site visit, by throughline.

Various Sties around Athens

@Acropolis

Acropolis Museum

@Agora

@Areopagus

@Delphi

@Epidaurus

@Isthmia

@Mycenae

@National Archeological Museum, Athens

@Naxos

@Panathenaic Stadium

@Pnyx

@Theater of Dionysus and Odion, Athens