Browsing by Author "Salapata G"

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    Ambiguity Versus Specificity in Modest Votive Offerings
    (2024) Salapata G; Haysom M; Mili M; Wallensten J
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    Journal of Classics Teaching
    (Cambridge University Press, 2023-10-23) Salapata G; Tracy J; Loke K
    In this article, we showcase the pilot scenario of The Trojan War, an educational self-directed game that combines text inspired by ancient Greek (as well as Roman) literature with graphics based on the ‘Geometric style’, an authentic Greek style of painting contemporary with the composition of the Homeric epics. Our game uses interactive scenarios to support active learning strategies of students interested in Classical Studies in both tertiary and secondary education. Players can take on the role of key characters, making choices that can prevent, start, or stop the Trojan War, as well as determine their own personal outcomes. The learners are thus presented with the opportunity to explore alternative pathways to rewrite the history of the War. In the process, they can apply their subject knowledge and develop their intellectual and critical skills. They also become familiar with a distinctive and expressive early Greek artistic style, the so-called Geometric. Rather than focusing on winning, the game aims to give students the opportunity to engage with important ideas and values of ancient Greek culture by exploring multiple perspectives on the topic. It also provides a valuable lesson on the potentially wide-ranging consequences of individual choices, which is a core element of responsible citizenship.
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    Youthful Boiotian Protomes: Technique and Ideology
    (Zenodo, 2024-12-15) Salapata G
    This paper discusses Boiotian terracotta bust-protomes of the Classical period. It focuses on the youthful male type, represented by three surviving examples belonging to two mould series. These protomes are technically intriguing because they were constructed by combining female and bearded male types to create secondary prototypes. This intricate process was driven not only by technical considerations but possibly also by religious and ideological reasons: to convey the androgynous quality of a young initiate of Dionysos, whose identity was intentionally blurred with that of the god during the time of transition from adolescence to adulthood. Depositing a youthful protome in the grave of a prematurely deceased could have helped place him under the protection of the god of transitions, who would guide him from life to death and hopefully to a blessed afterlife.