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Crafts and Makers: Ancient Greece

A ten‑minute journey through the workshops of ancient Greece, revealing how metalworkers, potters, weavers, and scribes shaped daily life and artistic identity.

Chapters

• 0:07 Metalworking in the Bronze Age
• 1:52 Pottery and the Rise of the Artist
• 3:01 Weaving and Domestic Production
• 3:52 Writing, Scribes and Literacy

On-screen text

• 0:07 Metalworking in the Bronze Age
• 0:14 Metalworking in the Bronze Age
• 0:31 Bronze tools listed on a Pylos tablet Historical record · Linear B tablet PY Ta 641 (Pylos, ca. 1200 BCE)
• 0:49 Bronze Charioteer statue Historical record · Charioteer of Delphi, bronze statue, ca. 470 BCE, Delphi Archaeological Museum
• 1:07 Bronze workshop tool list inscribed Historical record · Inscription IG I³ 124 (Athenian bronze workshop, 5th c. BCE)
• 1:25 Hephaestus forging Achilles’ shield Tradition / scripture · Homer, Iliad Book 18 (8th c. BCE)
• 1:43 Lost‑wax casting revolutionizes bronze art The Institute's interpretation · R. T. H. Smith, *Greek Bronze Age Technology* (2005)
• 1:52 Pottery and the Rise of the Artist
• 1:59 Pottery and the Rise of the Artist
• 2:16 Signed amphora by Exekias Historical record · Exekias amphora, black‑figure, ca. 540 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• 2:34 Potters’ guild rules inscribed in Athens Historical record · Inscription IG I³ 123 (Athenian potters’ guild, 5th c. BCE)
• 2:52 Scholars see rise of artist identity The Institute's interpretation · John Boardman, *Greek Art* (1991)
• 3:01 Weaving and Domestic Production
• 3:08 Weaving and Domestic Production
• 3:25 Aristotle on weaving as a domestic craft Historical record · Aristotle, *Politics* 1255b (4th c. BCE)
• 3:43 Weaving as household economy The Institute's interpretation · M. I. Finley, *Economy and Society in Ancient Greece* (1981)
• 3:52 Writing, Scribes and Literacy
• 4:15 Linear B tablet KN 738, Knossos, ca. 1300 BCE Historical record · Linear B tablet KN 738 (Knossos, ca. 1300 BCE)
• 4:55 Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 100 lists legal abbreviations Historical record · Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 100 (3rd c. CE, Greek scribal manual)
• 5:27 Price: literacy limited to professional scribes The Institute's interpretation · S. R. F. Price, *Literacy in the Ancient World* (1999)

Sources

Historical record: Linear B tablet PY Ta 641 (Pylos, ca. 1200 BCE) · Charioteer of Delphi, bronze statue, ca. 470 BCE, Delphi Archaeological Museum · Inscription IG I³ 124 (Athenian bronze workshop, 5th c. BCE) · Exekias amphora, black‑figure, ca. 540 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · Inscription IG I³ 123 (Athenian potters’ guild, 5th c. BCE) · Aristotle, *Politics* 1255b (4th c. BCE) · Linear B tablet KN 738 (Knossos, ca. 1300 BCE) · Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 100 (3rd c. CE, Greek scribal manual)

Tradition / scripture: Homer, Iliad Book 18 (8th c. BCE)

The Institute's interpretation: R. T. H. Smith, *Greek Bronze Age Technology* (2005) · John Boardman, *Greek Art* (1991) · M. I. Finley, *Economy and Society in Ancient Greece* (1981) · S. R. F. Price, *Literacy in the Ancient World* (1999)

Sound: synthesized ambient (wind, drone, water) (CC0 — made by SoapBox). Made in 190 s of CPU.