L16 - Honoring Gods

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Cards (8)

  • Recognize the work of art:
    Title: Venus de Melos
    Date: 150-100 BCE
    Style: Hellenistic
    Place: Island of Melos
  • Recognize the work of art:
    Title: The Slipper-Slapper Aphrodite
    Date: 100 BCE
    Medium: marble
    Style: Hellenistic
    Place: House of the Poseidoniasts, Delos
    Description: Aphrodite, Pan, and Eros
  • Recognize the work of art:
    Title: Golden Coin of Arsinoe II
    Date: 260s BCE
    Style: Hellenistic
    Place: Alexandria, Egypt
    Description: obverse (Arsinoe), reverse (cornicopia)
  • Recognize the work of art:
    Title: Cult statues for the Temple of Despoina
    Date: 200 BCE
    Author: Dampohon of Messene
    Style: Hellenistic
    Place: Lykosoura
    Description: Artemis, Demeter, Anytos
  • Recognize the place: 
    Temple of Despoina (Mistress) at Lykosoura
  • How did people in the Hellenistic Age honor the gods?
    TBD. Votive offerings, cult statues, poems/epigrams.
  • How did they use images of the Gods in non-religious contexts?
    TBD. Venus de Melos and the Slipper-Slapper were dedicated...
  • How do mortals become gods and which images reveal the process?
    TBD.
    The Coma Berenices:
    Arsinoe Philadelphos as goddess of Fortune: