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SunJaj Morning — March 27 1988 a Page Entertainment the Reverse side of coin shows Athena hold- ©f Hfiie Aeir©p©li§ Lampsakos Mysia Asia Minor shows deified Alexander ing spear Front of this coin is shown in photo at far left with ram’s horns i - V z s si Mt V r By Paul Wetzel Tribune Staff Writer Tw o exhibitions comprising 190 art objects from Classical Greece will open Sunday at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts University of Utah The woiks include marble and terra cotta sculpture ceramic vases coins engraved gems jewelry in bronze and gold and other pieces The exhibits “In the Shadow of the Acropolis Popular and Private Art in Fourth Century (B C) Athens” and “The Painted Past Attic Vases from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston” are on indefinite loan from the Boston museum and will remain m Salt Lake City for at least two years During that time the Utah museum and the university’s art department will present a series of lectures and other events explaining various aspects of ancient Greek civilization generally regarded as the wellspring of the Western cultural and political tradition (See related story on E-- ) Athens whose cultural achievements overshadowed those of all s reached other Greek the pinnacle of its artistic and political dominance in the fifth century B C It was the era of the Per3 city-state- J P W L 1 - sian and Peloponnesian wars chronicled by Herodotus and Thucydides and of the great Athenian Themistoeles Cimon and particularly Pericles Pericles (490M29 B C) not only fostered democracy m Athens and engineered her rise as a great imperial power but persuaded his fellow citizens to undertake an ambitious public building program that included the Parthenon and other edifices of the Acropolis It was the century of the philosopher Socrates and the great Athenian dramatists- Aeschylus Sophocles Euripedes Aristophanes and Menander Elsewhere m e soldier-statesme- pire and spread the Greek influence as far east as India before his death in 323 B C Despite the political turmoil this century too was one of tremendous cultutal and artistic achievement m Athens and in the Greek world generally personi fied by the philosophers Plato Aristotle Epicuios Zeno and Xenophon the Sophists the Cynics the orator Demosthenes (who fought valiantly to preserve Athenian independence in the face of the Macedonian onslaught) and the sculptors Scopas Praxiteles and Lysippus The two exhibitions that open at the Utah museum Sunday span three centuries “The Painted Past” comprises 28 Attic vases from the sixth and fifth centuries B C “In the Shadow of the Acropolis” encompasses 162 objects m a variety of media virtually all from the fourth century B C Though most of the works are from the Classical period the earliest fall into the late Archaic era and the latest come from the Hellenistic epoch As the subtitle “Popular and Private Art m Fourth Century Athens” suggests the subject of much of these exhibitions is handicrafts To see the most spectacular works of the Classical Column 1 pe-Se- e E-- 3 n Greece torso of Above young god from Roman Imperial Period inspired by work of Praxiteles marble At left grave marker in form of oil bottle from about 380 BC V Hippocrates laid the foundations of modern medicine Leucippus and Democritus did the same for atomic theory Polygnotus led a blossoming of monumental painting Myron created his famous bronze of the Discus Thrower Kntios and Polyclitus created enduring sculpture Pindar composed his lyric poetry The fourth century BC witnessed the political and military decline of Athens a process begun by her defeat at the hands of Sparta in 404 B C Indeed the Greek s generally embroiled themselves in almost constant warfare unifying only under the hegemony of a foreign conqueror Philip II of Macedon in 338 B C His son Alexander the Great would conquer the Persian Em H’ Ml! lb n city-state- from Suessula in South Italy of about 400 Jar men perhaps Argonauts battling with stone-throwin- g BC shows swordswarriors f — - Tribune Photos by Lynn Design by Steve Baker R Johnson ALL SILK r-- IVT GREENERY r Tt t OFF SALE ENDS S VI APRIL V 2 fi 1 XQLmN ALL DMC FREE GLUE STICKS you win urn TIN 4” I KM- iv FLOSS )on and your guests are cordially muted to the fmt lomih to cxhdntwn and sale of oil paintings l (ILL SIKkS WITH ANY Jt PURCHASL IIMir OM! 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