5.1 Ancient Greece

Question 1

1. Evident in the absence of a pediment and a roof, the Temple of Apollo, Didyma, reflected the ability of Hellenistic architecture to ____.

Answer 1

be surprising and dramatic

Question 2

2. The Geometric krater would most likely be found in which of the following?

Answer 2

An Athenian cemetery of the Geometric period

Question 3

3. A standing nude figure of a young man is known in Greek art as which of the following?

Answer 3

Kouros

Question 4

4. The depiction of Greeks on the Ionic frieze of the Parthenon was exceptional because ____.

Answer 4

no human event had been depicted on a temple

Question 5

5. Who is usually given credit for the invention of the red-figure technique as seen in the amphora of “Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game”?

Answer 5

Andokides painter

Question 6

6. In the statue of Athena Parthenos, what did she hold that made an overt reference to the Athenian victory over the Persians in 479 BC?

Answer 6

A winged Nike figure

Question 7

7. The earliest known example of the use of contrapposto is the sculpture known as the ____.

Answer 7

Kritios Boy

Question 8

8. The drapery worn by the three goddesses on the Parthenon is characterized as ____.

Answer 8

revealing and concealing the body masses

Question 9

9. The Hellenistic image of Athena battling Alkyoneos on the Altar of Zeus has ____ not found in earlier sculpture.

Answer 9

an emotional intensity

Question 10

10. The ____ is the historical event that ushered in the beginning of the Classical period.

Answer 10

defeat of the Persians

Question 11

11. In the Archaic period, the black-figure style of vase painting was replaced by the ____ style.

Answer 11

red-figure

Question 12

12. The rigidly frontal pose of archaic statues reflects the influence of ____.

Answer 12

Egyptian art

Question 13

13. A female statue column used as an architectural support was known as a ____.

Answer 13

caryatid /kariatid/

Question 14

14. One indication that the lady of Auxerre may be a kore is ____.

Answer 14

the gesture of prayer

Question 15

15. ____ was a Greek colony in Egypt that brought the Greeks into direct contact with Egyptian monumental architecture.

Answer 15

Naukratis

Question 16

16. The Corinthian black-figure amphora with animal friezes demonstrates the Greek fascination with ____.

Answer 16

the Orient

Question 17

17. In contrast to earlier pediments, the pedimental sculptures of the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina feature ____.

Answer 17

a unified theme and consistent scale

Question 18

18. In his ____, Praxiteles took the unprecedented step of representing a female nude.

Answer 18

Aphrodite of Knidos

Question 19

19. Scholars mostly agree that the Ionic frieze on the Parthenon is a representation of the ____.

Answer 19

Panathenaic procession

Question 20

20. In the gigantomachy of the Altar of Zeus, Pergamon alludes to a victory of the Pergamenes over the ____ in the third century BCE.

Answer 20

Gauls

Question 21

21. The sculptor Polykleitos imposed order on human movement in his Doryphoros by ____.

Answer 21

creating a system of cross balances

Question 22

22. The asymmetrical plan of the ____ from the Athenian Acropolis is unique.

Answer 22

Erechtheion

Question 23

23. What event is chronicled on the frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike detailing victory over the Persians?

Answer 23

battle at Marathon

Question 24

24. What scene is represented on the Attic white-ground lekythos painted by the so-called Achilles Painter?

Answer 24

warrior taking leave of his wife

Question 25

25. One of the rooms of the Propylaia reportedly functioned as a ____.

Answer 25

picture gallery