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Chapter 5: Ancient Greece Flashcards

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Amphora

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Ancient Greek or Roman jar for storing oil, or wine, with and egg-shaped body and 2 curved handles

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Pediment

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Triangle gable found over major architectural elements such as classical greek portico, windows, or doors

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Sanctuary

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Sacred or holy temple used for worship

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Olpe

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Greek vessel without a spout

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Black-figure-technique

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Technique of ancient Greek ceramic decoration in black figures are painted on red clay ground

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Red-figure-techniqe

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Red clay colour figures on black background

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Stoa

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long roofed walkway usually having columns on one long side and a wall on the other

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Caryatid

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Sculpture of draped female figure acting as a column supporting an enblature (stick figure women thing)

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Pedistal

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Platform/base supporting sculpture or other monument

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Entablature

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Horizontal elements above the columns and capitals (consists of, from bottom to top, an architrave, a frieze, and a cornice)

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Architrave

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Bottom element in an entablature, beneath frieze and cornice

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Terra Cotta

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Medium made from clay fired over a low heat and sometimes left unglazed

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Kore and Kouros

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Archaic statues of young woman (kore) and man (kouros)

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Archaic Smile

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Curved lips of ancient Greek statues in the period c. 600-480 BCE

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Kantharos

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Ancient Greek goblet with 2 large handles and a wide mouth

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Slip

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Mixture of clay and water applied to a ceramic object as a final decorative coat

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Metope

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Carved/painted rectangular panel between the triglyph of a Doric frieze

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Calyx Krater

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Bell-shaped vessel with handles near the base that resembles a flower calyx

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Sypsium

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Elite gathering of wealthy and powerful men in ancient Greece that focused on wine, music, poetry, conversation, games, and love making

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Contrapposto

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Italian term meaning “set against” used to describe classical convention of representing human figures with opposing alternation of tension and relaxation on either side of a central axis, to imbue figures with a sense of the potential for movement

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Humanism, Rationalism, idealism

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Humanism - outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to humans rather than divine or supernatural powers

** Rationalism - Belief that actions and opinions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than religious
belief or emotional response ** Idealism - Belief that ones own ideas are real

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Kylix

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Shallow ancient Greek cup used for drinking, with a wide mouth and small handles near the rim

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Psykter

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Greek vessel with an extended base to allow it to float in a larger krater

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Tondo

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Painting or relief sculpture of circular shape

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Oinochoe
Greek Jug used for wine
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Temple Terminology (pg. 108)
Sanctuaries where an outdoor altar stood within an enclosed sacred area called a temenos?
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Greek Orders Diagram (pg. 109)
Constitutes a system of interdependent parts whose proportions are based on mathematical ratios
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Trojan War
Conflict between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece
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Exekias
Greek painter + potter (ajax and achilles playing a game on vase)
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Euphronios
Greek vase painter and potter known for red-figure technique (Death of Sarpedon)
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Achilles and Ajax
War warriors, ajax commits suicide after Achilles becomes murdered
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Corinth, Athens, Sparta
** Corinth - City and former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece **Athens - The heart of ancient Greece (Capital) ** Sparta - Prominent city-state- in ancient Greece
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Mount Olympus
Highest mountain in Greece
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Mount Parnassos
Mountain of limestone in Greece
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The Deities
Gods and Goddesses
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The Geometric Period
900-700 BCE, time of dramatic transformation leading to establishment of primary Greek Institutions
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The Orientalizing Period
Cultural and art historical period.. Easter Mediterranean and Ancient Near east
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The Archaic Period
600 - 480 BCE - Time of great achievement in Greece for literature
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Zeus
Sky and Thunder God
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Hera
Wife and one of 3 sisters of Zeus
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The Early Classical Period
480-450 BCE, Establishment of Greek ideal of beauty than endured in the Western world to this day
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Polykleitos
Greek Sculptor (Kritios Boy, Akropolis Athens, c. 475 BCE )
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4;9 Ratio
Ratio of the Temple
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Enstatis
Swelling of shaft or Greek Column
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Idealization
Assumption of facts about things being molded that are strictly false but make models easier to understand or solve
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Symmetria/commensurability
Symmetria - Statues of young athletes Commensurability - Measurable by the same standard
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Parapet
low protective wall, along the edge of a roof, bridge, or balcony
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Agora
Open space in Greek town uses as a central gathering place or market
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Bouleuterion
Building which housed council of citizens of a democratic city state
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Podium
Raised platform that acts as the foundation for a building, or as a platform for a speaker
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Tholos
Small ground building, sometimes built underground (Mycenaean Tomb)
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Orthogonal Grid
Any line running back into the represented space of a picture perpendicular to the imagined picture plane
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Hydria
Jar with 2 handles (horizontal ones at both sides and one vertical at the back) used for storing water
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White-ground- paintin g
Background color of the object was painted with a slip that turns white in the firing process
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Tempera
Permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments that are mixed with water-soluble binder medium
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Lekythoi
Vessel used for storing Oil
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Strigil
Instrument with a curved blade used to scrape swear and dirt from the skin
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Lost-wax-casting
Method of casting metal such as bronze.. Wax mold covered with clay and plaster, then fired, melting wax and leaving a hollow form
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Mosaic
Image formed by arranging small colored stone or glass pieces and affixing them to a hard, stable surface
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Tesserae
Small piece of stone, glass, or other objects that is pieced together with many others to create a mosaic
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Foreshortening
The illusion created on a flat surface by which figures and objects appears to recede or the rules of perspective
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Pausian Design
q,
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Proscenium
Stage of Theatre
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Torc
Neck ring worm by Celtic Warriors
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Barbarian
Label for foreigners outside their cultural orbit
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Expressionism
Artistic styles in which aspects of works of art are exaggerated to evoke subjective emotions rather than to portray objective reality or elicit a rational response
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Akropolis
Raised area holding a building or cluster of buildings, especially in a pre-columbian city lmao what
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The High Classical Period
450 - 400 BCE, Known as greece's "Golden Age," pinnacle of artistic refinement, producing works that set a standard of unsurpassed excellence
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Peloponnesian War
431-404 BCE, fought by Athens and the empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta
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Perikles
(c. 495-429) 5th Century BCE leader who Dominated Athenian politics and culture from 462 BCE until he died in 429 BCE
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The Parthenon
Temple on Athenian Acropolis, Greece
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Athena Nike/Promachos/Parthenos
Athena Nike - Temple in south of the Propylaia in 425 BCE Promachos - Men fighting in first rank of phalanx Parthenos - Ephithet of Athena.. Meaning "virgin?" what
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Erechtheion
Temple north side of Acropolis
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Pheidias
Sculptor, director of the construction of the Parthenon
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Elgin Marbles
Collection of greek marble, originally part of the Parthenon
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The Canon
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Propylaia
Monumental getaway
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Panatheniac Way
Numerous roads led in and out of agora Square.. Dipylon, up to Acropolis
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Hippodamos of Miletos
Major urban planner of the 5th Century BCE, held views on the reasoned perfectibility of Urban design akin to those of Athenian Philosophers and artists
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Socrates
Greek philosopher who was the teacher of Plato
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Polygnotos of Thasos
Vase painter in athens known for paintings of the Agora, Market place
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The Late Classical Period
400-323 BCE, increased emphasis on the expression of emotion in arte
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Plato and Aristotle
Philosophers in studying matters of ethics, science, politics
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Aexander the Great
led united Greece in a war of revenge and conquest against the Persians
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Lysippos
Greek sculptor (Man scraping himself)
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Praxiteles
Sculptor (Aphrodite of Knidos, Hermes and the infant Dionysos
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Gnosis
Common Greek noun for knowledge, signifying a dualistic knowledge in the sense of mystical enlightenment or "insight"
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The Hellenistic Period
323-31/30 BCE, time of death between the man Alexander and the rise of Roman domination .. Successors of ATG
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Antigonus, Ptolemy, Seleucus
Antigonus - controlled Macedonia and mainland Greece Ptolemy - Ruled egypt Seleucus - … don’t friggin know not sorry
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Pergamon
Ancient Greek City in Aeolis
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Pausia vs Glykera
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