PICTURE SOURCES

• Annotate the sappho fresco

  -found in pompeii

  -shows a educated upper class woman holding a stylis

  -named in modern greek times after the female poet Sappho (a highly educated and well-respected female writer)

  -currently in Naples

  
• Annotate the Laudtio Turae

  -Turias husband wrote it as a eulogy

  -source of evidence for ideal matrona and ideal behaviour for a Roman woman

  
• Annotate house of the vestal virgins

  -in the civic heart of Rome

  -50 rooms and 3 storeys tall

  -next to many important buildings ie.senate and other temples

  -on the eastern edge of the Roman forum

  
• Annotate the statue if pactrica pudicitia

  -fully robed to show modesty

  -hand to face to shy away from attention

  -very closed off with the arm around her body

  
• Annotate the setle of ampharete

  -the roof implies she is inside showing how she is a good kyria

  -the stele is public she still doesn’t look to the public

  -with her grand child (maternal gaze)

  
• Annotate the stele of hegaso

  -inside o show a good kyria

  -the slave girl has simple hair and a simple dress and is stood in an uncomfortable position

  -hegaso has elaborate hair and is wearing many layers and is looking into a jewellery box to show her wealth and status over the slave girl

  
• Annotate the bassae frieze

  -Amazon fighting Hercules

  -fallen geek soldier

  -you can tell she is an Amazon as she has breasts and is wearing a short tunic

  -you can tell it is hercules because he is wearing a lion skin

  
• annotate the battle between the Greeks and the amazons

  -achillies stabbing Penthesalea

  -Achilles falls in love with her after she dies

  -Amazon warrior protecting her queen (sense of hierachry within the amazons)

  
• Annotate the krater of medea

  -medea surrounded by the sun is a reference to Helios

  -her sons are dead in the corner with thier nurse and their teacher crying next to their body’s

  -Jason is staring up at medea is grief

  -the fury’s are in the corner they are either on medeas side (showing they support her anger) or they are on Jason’s side to evenge the children