Greece Flashcards
1
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Polis
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Name of a city state
2
Q
Krater
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An Ancient Greece wife mouthed bowl for mixing wine and water
3
Q
Amphora
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An ancient Greece 2 handed Jar used for general purpose storage, usually to hold wine or oil
4
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Kouros
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Ancient Greece statue of a young man
5
Q
Kore
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Greek meaning statue of young woman
6
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Golden Section
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A system of ideal proportions developed by the hellenes
7
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Encaustic
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A painting technique were pigment is mixed with hot wax and applied while hot
8
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Contrapposto
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The disposition of the human figure hips one way shoulders the other way creating an axis
9
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Hellenistic
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The term given to the art and culture of the roughly three centuries between the death of Alexander the Great and The Death of Queen Cleopatra
