Hellenistic Period

• 323 BCE - 30 BCE• Death of Alexander the Great to the Death

of Cleopatra• Art moved from ideal to individual and the

specific.• Heightened sense of EMOTION and

DRAMA

• Very different athletic rendition then the triumphant Diskobolus or Riace Warrior

• Beaten, broken, pathos, and vulnerable

• tremendous sense of presence

• inlaid copper to seem like wounds in face

• inspired by Lysippos Weary Herakles

Seated boxer, from Rome, Italy, ca. 100-50 BCE. Bronze

• Greece became part of Roman Empire in early 2nd BCE

• Priest is punished for attempting to warn Trojans of Greece’s plot with wooden horse.

ATHANADOROS, HAGESANDROS, and POLYDOROS OF RHODES, Laocoön and his sons, from Rome, Italy, early first century CE Marble

figura serpintinata

• Laocoon

• Prepare three facts from the movie that you will discuss with a partner after the completion of the short clip.