Handouts 4-7 Greek Facts Flashcards

(31 cards)

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What is contrapposto?

A

weight shift

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When was potters wheel invented?

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2000 BCE

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Characteristics of Doric and Ionic order

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Doric: Male, non-continuous frieze, plain capitol and column, triglyphs and metopes
Ionic: Volute columns, continuous frieze, female

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4
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The order of the time periods?

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Geometric, Oriental, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic

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5
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Define hubris and nemesis

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Hubris=pride

nemesis=too much pride

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Name the three sculptors of Greece

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Polykleitos, Myron, Phidias

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Which architects made the parthenon

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Iktinos and Kallikrates

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What is the delian league

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Formed after Persians defeated. A Hellenic alliance, led by athenians

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True or False: Parthenon has all Doric feautures

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False, outer doric, inside ionic

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What was the orientalizing period?

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A transition phase, took inspiration from Near East, Egypt, Syria, Phoenicia

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How does Greek and Egyptian sculpture differ?

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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?

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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?

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Friendship, loyalty, courage, death/value of human liofe

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What are characteristics of Early Classical Sculpture?

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Archaic smile gone, harmonious proportions, increased self awareness, and bronze sculpture

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Anthropocentric Universe

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man-centered universe

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16
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What culture created comedy/tragedy?

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Greek culture, created since they had no illusions of life

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What did the greeks want in all things?

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harmony, order, balance, stability, calm,

18
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Difference between ethos and pathos

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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?

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Beehive tomb, largest unobstructed space in antiquity

20
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What are traditional Greek ideals and attitudes?

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Positive rational mind, individualism, harmony

21
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What are major changes in making hellenistic sculpture?

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Non-classical, not ideal
See portrayal of Women and Goddesses
See human reality and emotions
Emphasis on drapery
HEAVY DRAMA
22
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What is a stoa?

A

roofed colonnade or portico

23
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Who created the S-curve in sculpture?

24
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Who came up with the Greek Canon of Proportions?

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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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Differentiate between Mycenaean and Minoan Megarons
Mycenaean: true megaron; a large (three chambered) rectangular structure, fronted by an open two-columned porch; fundamental building type; the architectural basis for all Greek temples Minoan: not a true megaron; scattered and lack of order, non-geometric
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What is vault?
an arched roof or ceiling