Flashcards in Handouts 4-7 Greek Facts Deck (31)
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What is contrapposto?
weight shift
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When was potters wheel invented?
2000 BCE
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Characteristics of Doric and Ionic order
Doric: Male, non-continuous frieze, plain capitol and column, triglyphs and metopes
Ionic: Volute columns, continuous frieze, female
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The order of the time periods?
Geometric, Oriental, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic
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Define hubris and nemesis
Hubris=pride
nemesis=too much pride
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Name the three sculptors of Greece
Polykleitos, Myron, Phidias
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Which architects made the parthenon
Iktinos and Kallikrates
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What is the delian league
Formed after Persians defeated. A Hellenic alliance, led by athenians
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True or False: Parthenon has all Doric feautures
False, outer doric, inside ionic
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What was the orientalizing period?
A transition phase, took inspiration from Near East, Egypt, Syria, Phoenicia
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How does Greek and Egyptian sculpture differ?
Greek is nude. And Greek is liberated from original stone block, egypts obsession with permanence was alien to Greek psychology and so philosophy
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What did the archaic period develop?
Life size stone statue, Kouros and Kore, and change from black figure to red figure vase painting
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What are virtues set forth by the Iliad?
Friendship, loyalty, courage, death/value of human liofe
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What are characteristics of Early Classical Sculpture?
Archaic smile gone, harmonious proportions, increased self awareness, and bronze sculpture
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Anthropocentric Universe
man-centered universe
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What culture created comedy/tragedy?
Greek culture, created since they had no illusions of life
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What did the greeks want in all things?
harmony, order, balance, stability, calm,
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Difference between ethos and pathos
Ethos=central attribute of one's character, self-discipline
Pathos=personal emotion
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What kind of tomb was the Royal Treasury of Artreus? And what is so special about the Treasury?
Beehive tomb, largest unobstructed space in antiquity
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What are traditional Greek ideals and attitudes?
Positive rational mind, individualism, harmony
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What are major changes in making hellenistic sculpture?
Non-classical, not ideal
See portrayal of Women and Goddesses
See human reality and emotions
Emphasis on drapery
HEAVY DRAMA
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What is a stoa?
roofed colonnade or portico
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Who created the S-curve in sculpture?
Myron
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Who came up with the Greek Canon of Proportions?
Polykleitos
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What did Phidias sculpt?
Gods and Goddesses
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What are the Krater and Amphora designs?
vase shapes
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Who was Homer?
8th century blind poet from Aegean Islands or Asia Minor
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Who is Achilles?
chief hero in the Iliad; symbolizes youth and strength
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What is a corbel?
an overlapping arrangement of stones, each course projecting beyond the one below, used in construction of arch or vault
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