rational explanations experiential extensions
Pericles’ Funeral Speech (88-89) the Iliad (81-84) Aristotle’s Poetics (99) the Antigone (92-98) Plato’s Crito (102-104) Sappho’s poems (128) Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (104-107) Pindar’s Odes (128) Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics (109-110) Vitruvius on Symmetry (114-116)
* * * * * * values arete, agon, kalokagathia, kosmos, moira
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transcendent performances interpretive forms
Palace of Minos (78) Bull Leaping Fresco (79) Queen’s Quarters (78) Priestess with Snake (79) Lion Gate (80) Mask of Agamemnon (80) Epictetus cup (117) Ajax and Achilles Playing Dice (117) Calf-Bearer (118) Contest of Two Warriors (76) Zeus-Poseidon (120) Death of Sarpedon (81) pendant of Athena (127) Geometric Krater (116) Aphrodite of Knidos (121) Bust of Pericles (87) the Parthenon (122-126) Foot Race amphora (90) Song of Seikelos (121) Dipylon kouros (118) Berlin painter- Kitharode (129) Kroisos (119) Kritios Boy (119) Doryphorus (115) Discobolus (113) Kore from Chios (121)
Value Terms
arete- a particular ability or skill; originally the display of martial prowess on the battlefield (Homer); ability displayed in athletic competition (Myron); skill as a citizen displayed through active participation in the activities of the state (Pericles, Parthenon); virtue in a general sense, such as in Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean kalokagathia- the quality of being both beautiful and good (kalos and agathos) klea- fame, good report, glory agon- a