1. Cultural Diffusion
From Egypt to Greece

2. Lock and Key – Mesopotamia 2000 BC
Everyday Items
Where did it come from?
Toothbrush – China 1498
Camcorder – Japan
Buttons – Greece 770 BC
Lock and Key – Mesopotamia 2000 BC

3. Cultural Diffusion
Definition: the process by which an idea, invention, or way of behaving is borrowed from a foreign source and adopted by the borrowing people Can be stolen, imitated, purchased, or copied.

6. Cultural Diffusion
Selective Borrowing Do not take ideas and inventions indiscriminately Cultures are very choosy in what features are adopted Only borrow the most concrete and tangible elements and shape it to fit their larger culture

7. Selective Borrowing
McDonald’s Coca-Cola

8. The Diffusion Process
How quickly do others in a culture acquire, learn about, and/or come to use or consume a new idea, behavior, or invention?

9. The Diffusion Process
Three Factors The extent the borrowing causes people to change their ways of thinking and behaving The existence of a media structure that lets people learn about it. The social status of the early adopters

10. How does the Homework relate to the concept of Cultural Diffusion?

11. Cultural Diffusion and the Arts
When cultural diffusion becomes cultural appropriation (Negative)

12. The Cultural Diffusion of Egyptian Art into Greek Culture

13. Discus-thrower (discobolus)
Egypt 1- Initial Analysis- Pharoah (status, social organization, the ideal characteristics of a pharoah as discussed in earlier class), Material (everlasting), Stepping forward (leading), Clenched fists (strength), Female (respected role in society),
Greece 1- Clear Cultural Diffusion, larger emphasis on the human form, no social status, Fists not as clenched
Classical Greece- Large departure, continues focus on physical form (the induvidual), Mathematically impressive (circle), Athletics
Discus-thrower (discobolus)
Roman copy of a bronze original of the 5th century BC
Menkaure and Queen
BCE
Giza, Egypt
Kroisos (Boy), ca. 530 BCE
Pre-Classical Greece

14. GREEK MYTHS Iintroduction and Chapter 1
HOMEWORK
GREEK MYTHS
Iintroduction and Chapter 1
Egyptians have images of Zeus with a ram's head. Egyptians call Zeus “Amon.” Herodotus
Herodotus (greek historian), makes it abundantly clear