Civic, Domestic, and Funerary

Question 1

What is the Hippodamian plan?

Answer 1

• Grid layout
• Named after Hippodamus of Meletos
• Used for grid plan for port of Piraeus

Question 2

What is the acropolis?

Answer 2

• Highest point of the city
• Foritifed
• Serves civic and religious function

Question 3

Define the agora

Answer 3

• Marketplace
• Central public space for commerical, judicial, festival, ritual, social, political, and philosophical uses
• Can be in stoas (roofed colonnaded porticoes)
• Has Panathenaia Way (leads to acropolis) cutting through

Question 4

Identification

Answer 4

Panathenaic Amphora
* From 490 BCE
* Part of the Panathenaic games held every 4 years, found in 566 BCE
* Musical, athletic, and chariot contests
* Side A has Athena Promachos striding forward with spear and shield, inscription “From the games at Athena”
* Side B is the event the prize is for
* Black figure in Archaic style

Question 5

Describe parts of the Oikos.

Answer 5

Pastas: courtyard in centre
Andron: men’s rooms that hosts symposion (male guests eat, drink, games/kottabos, and sex)
Kline: couch made of wood and cushion, usually 7 in an andron

Question 6

Identification

Answer 6

Eurytios Krater
* Comes from Corin, 600-590 BCE
* Example of sympiotic pottery
* Polychrome: red and black
* Shows symposiun with 4 klinai (Banquet of Eurytios, competition for the King’s daughter Iole)
* Contains inscriptions

Question 7

Define Ekphora

Answer 7

Funerary procession from house to cemetery

Question 8

What is a lekythos?

Answer 8

• Oil container
• Typically show funerary scenes

Question 9

What are the types of grave markers?

Answer 9

Vases, statues, stele

Question 10

Identification

Answer 10

Stele of Hegeso
* 5th century BCE
* Penetelic marble relief stele
* High classical relief
* Mistress and maid motif
* House shaped shows domestic setting