--- title: Ancient Art & Architecture description: Ancient art and architecture examines the visual and material culture of ancient civilizations, focusing on Greece and Rome. Learners will understand how to analyze sculptures, pottery, and monumental structures within their historical and cultural contexts. category: humanities subcategory: classics difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/ancient-art-and-architecture --- # Ancient Art & Architecture Ancient art and architecture examines the visual and material culture of ancient civilizations, focusing on Greece and Rome. Learners will understand how to analyze sculptures, pottery, and monumental structures within their historical and cultural contexts. ## Available Resources 3 Books • 2 Courses • 3 Websites ## Courses ### 1. Roman Architecture Explore Roman Architecture with Smart History! Learn about iconic structures and building techniques in this engaging course. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/roman **Tags:** roman-architecture, roman-art, art-history, ancient-rome, classical-architecture ### 2. Roman Architecture Roman Architecture is a course for people who love to travel and want to discover the power of architecture to shape politics, society, and culture. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/roman-architecture **Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, classics ## Websites ### 1. Perseus Digital Library Tufts University's Perseus Digital Library, a long-running collection of Greek and Latin texts with translations, plus catalogued images of ancient art, coins, sculpture, and archaeological sites. Learners can study classical artworks alongside the primary sources describing them. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ **Tags:** classical-art, ancient-greece, ancient-rome, archaeology, primary-sources ### 2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline pairs objects from the museum's collection with essays organized by region and period, from 8000 B.C. onward. Readers come away able to place a work geographically and chronologically and to see cross-cultural contemporaries. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ **Tags:** art history timeline, museum collections, world art, chronology ### 3. smarthistory.org Smarthistory.org provides free, student-friendly art history resources through expert-led short videos and concise essays that analyze major artworks, movements, and cultural contexts from around the world. It features visual analyses, contextual histories, and thematic comparisons suitable for students and educators. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://smarthistory.org **Tags:** websites, arts-design, art-history ## Podcasts ### 1. Lit Century **Author:** Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols Host Catherine Nichols and guests choose one book for each year of the twentieth century (Nella Larsen's Passing, 1936, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, 1966; Mohandas Gandhi's Indian Home Rule, 1909) and talk about it in its historical and literary context. Tune in to find out what the 20th century was all about. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.lithub.com **Tags:** 20th-century-literature, book-discussion, literary-history, author-interviews ### 2. Poetry Off the Shelf **Author:** Poetry Foundation Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ **Tags:** poetry, poet-interviews, creative-process, contemporary-poetry ## Books ### 1. The Oxford History of Art: Classical Art **Author:** John Boardman (ed.) Chapters by specialists, edited by John Boardman, trace Greek and Roman art from the Archaic period through the Roman Empire, including sculpture, vase painting, architecture, and the art of the Hellenistic kingdoms. Readers gain a chronological framework for dating styles and understanding their historical context. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0192854437?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, classics ### 2. Greek Art and Archaeology **Author:** John Griffiths Pedley Standard university survey of Greek art from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period, covering architecture, sculpture, vase painting, wall painting, and metalwork in their archaeological and social contexts. Readers learn to recognize period styles and connect monuments to excavation evidence and historical events. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0132409348?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, classics ### 3. Roman Art and Architecture **Author:** Mortimer Wheeler Compact Thames & Hudson survey by the archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler, covering Roman town planning, architecture, sculpture, painting, and decorative arts across the empire. Readers come away understanding how Roman builders used concrete, the arch, and standardized urban layouts, and how provincial art related to Rome. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0500200211?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, classics --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/ancient-art-and-architecture