Ancient Mediterranean + Europe
Brought to you by Smarthistory. 3000 B.C.E. - 400 C.E.: The Great Pyramids at Giza, the Parthenon in Athens, the Colosseum in Rome and more.
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Unit 1: A beginner's guide
Ancient Mediterranean in a global context
Polychromy in Ancient Sculpture
Unit 2: Ancient Near East
The Ancient Near East, an introduction
Akkadian
Neo-Sumerian/Ur III
Babylonian
Assyrian
Unit 3: Pre-Islamic Arabia
Nabataean
Unit 4: Ancient Egypt & Sudan
A beginner's guide
Predynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom
Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period
New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and Large Kneeling Statue, New Kingdom, Egypt ✓ Check-ins7:37
The New York Obelisk, Cleopatra's Needle ✓ Check-ins6:10
Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters ✓ Check-ins5:03
Portrait head of Queen Tiye with a crown of two feathers ✓ Check-ins3:16
Thutmose, Bust of Nefertiti ✓ Check-ins4:01
Head of Tutankhamun from the Amarna Period of Egypt’s New Kingdom ✓ Check-ins2:35
Last Judgement of Hunefer, from his tomb ✓ Check-ins7:40
Ancient Egyptian papyrus in the Book of the Dead Exhibition ✓ Check-ins2:07
Unit 5: Ancient Aegean
Cycladic
Unit 6: Ancient Greece
A beginner's guide to ancient Greece
Contrapposto explained ✓ Check-ins4:23
Classic, classical, and classicism explained ✓ Check-ins4:35
The classical orders ✓ Check-ins11:08
Victorious athlete: The Vaison Daidoumenos ✓ Check-ins0:50
Prize amphora showing a chariot race ✓ Check-ins1:15
A competitor in the long jump ✓ Check-ins1:25
Sprinter on a vase from Rhodes and a bronze running girl ✓ Check-ins1:06
Pottery
Ancient Greek vase production and the black-figure technique4:16
Dipylon Amphora ✓ Check-ins4:13
Terracotta Krater ✓ Check-ins4:15
Eleusis Amphora ✓ Check-ins6:53
Exekias, amphora with Ajax and Achilles playing a game ✓ Check-ins6:43
Exekias, Dionysos Kylix ✓ Check-ins3:52
From tomb to museum: the story of the Sarpedon Krater ✓ Check-ins7:34
Niobid Painter, Niobid Krater ✓ Check-ins6:05
Daedalic and Archaic
Tiny Timelines: Archaic Greece in a global context ✓ Check-ins1:11
Lady of Auxerre ✓ Check-ins4:04
New York Kouros ✓ Check-ins5:53
Marble Statue of a kouros ✓ Check-ins2:20
Anavysos Kouros ✓ Check-ins4:59
Peplos Kore from the Acropolis ✓ Check-ins5:02
Ancient Greek temples at Paestum, Italy ✓ Check-ins6:32
Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi ✓ Check-ins5:14
Siphnian Treasury, Delphi ✓ Check-ins12:22
Early classical
Classical
Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) ✓ Check-ins5:08
Myron, Discobolus (Discus Thrower), Roman copy of an ancient Greek bronze ✓ Check-ins3:46
The Athenian Agora and the experiment in democracy ✓ Check-ins4:40
Parthenon (Acropolis) ✓ Check-ins16:04
Phidias, Parthenon sculptures (pediments, metopes and frieze) ✓ Check-ins14:25
Who owns the Parthenon sculptures? ✓ Check-ins10:47
Egyptian blue on the Parthenon sculptures ✓ Check-ins5:40
"Plaque of the Ergastines" fragment from the frieze on the east side of the Parthenon ✓ Check-ins4:37
The Erechtheion ✓ Check-ins8:08
Caryatid and column from the Erechtheion ✓ Check-ins4:14
Victory (Nike) Adjusting Her Sandal, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis) ✓ Check-ins4:18
Grave Stele of Hegeso ✓ Check-ins3:27
Late classical (4th century)
Hellenistic
Statue of a Victorious Youth, Getty conversations ✓ Check-ins8:10
Barberini Faun ✓ Check-ins5:58
Dying Gaul and Ludovisi Gaul ✓ Check-ins4:31
Bronze statue of Eros sleeping ✓ Check-ins2:43
Winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace ✓ Check-ins3:27
Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon ✓ Check-ins8:50
Apollonius, Seated Boxer ✓ Check-ins4:14
The Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot) ✓ Check-ins2:24
Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii ✓ Check-ins5:54
Laocoön and his sons ✓ Check-ins3:43
Unit 7: Ancient Ireland & Britain
Unit 8: Etruscan
Unit 9: Ancient Rome
A beginner's guide to ancient Rome
Beginner guides to Roman architecture
Roman art, archaeology, and museums
Wall painting
Republic
Early empire
Augustus of Primaporta ✓ Check-ins6:23
Ara Pacis ✓ Check-ins9:32
The art of gem carving ✓ Check-ins4:09
Lateran Obelisk ✓ Check-ins5:25
Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater) ✓ Check-ins9:59
Relief from the Arch of Titus, showing The Spoils of Jerusalem being brought into Rome ✓ Check-ins6:35
Portrait Bust of a Flavian Woman (Fonseca Bust), part 1 of 2 ✓ Check-ins4:02
When there is no archaeological record: Portrait Bust of a Flavian Woman (Fonseca bust) ✓ Check-ins6:46
The Forum of Trajan ✓ Check-ins6:01
Markets of Trajan ✓ Check-ins3:55
Column of Trajan ✓ Check-ins8:28
Middle empire
The Pantheon ✓ Check-ins8:32
Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli: A virtual tour ✓ Check-ins8:04
Hadrian, The imperial palace, Tivoli ✓ Check-ins2:18
Maritime Theatre at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli ✓ Check-ins5:01
Rome's layered history: the Castel Sant'Angelo ✓ Check-ins6:27
Pair of Centaurs Fighting Cats of Prey from Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli ✓ Check-ins4:49
Hadrian, Building the wall ✓ Check-ins3:01
Empire: Medea Sarcophagus ✓ Check-ins4:57
Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius ✓ Check-ins3:48
The importance of the archaeological findspot: The Lullingstone Busts ✓ Check-ins5:38
The Arch of Septimius Severus, portal to ancient Rome ✓ Check-ins8:00
The Severan Tondo: Damnatio Memoriae in ancient Rome ✓ Check-ins4:13
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus ✓ Check-ins5:34
Late empire
Emperor or athlete? Rethinking a modern attribution ✓ Check-ins6:33
Portraits of the Four Tetrarchs ✓ Check-ins6:09
Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine ✓ Check-ins4:19
Arch of Constantine ✓ Check-ins11:51
The Colossus of Constantine ✓ Check-ins4:33
Santa Costanza, Rome ✓ Check-ins5:47
Holding on to pagan traditions in the early Christian era: The Symmachi Panel ✓ Check-ins3:41
Unit 10: Palmyra
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