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 104-240 Hellenistic and Roman Art and Archaeology: the Mediterranean World 336BC-Ad14

Note

Available as 104-340 at 3rd-year level.

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Professor F Sear

Prerequisites

Any two Arts subjects or permission of the Head of the Department.

Contact

Two lectures and a tutorial a week

Subject Description

The sculpture, painting and architecture of the Hellenistic world of Greece and the Roman Republic in the last three centuries BC. Students on completion of the subject should have acquired an understanding of the main aspects of Hellenistic and Roman Art, the evidence for the periods and the necessary skills for the interpretation of this evidence.

Assessment

3000 words of written work (50%) and a 2-hour examination (50%).

Prescribed Texts
  • Pollitt J J, Art in the Hellenistic Age. Cambridge.
  • Smith R R, Hellenistic Sculpture. Thames and Hudson.
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