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Ancient Greece Flashcards

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Geometric Style

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900-700 BCE

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Geometric Amphora

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750 BCE Diplyon cemetery

terracotta

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Archaic Style

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700-480 BCE

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Siphnian Treasury

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525 BCE Delphi Archaic

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The Temple of Hera I

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550 BC Paestrum, Italy Archaic

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The Temple of Hera II

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500 BCE Paestrum, Italy Archaic

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Kore

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630 BCE limestone Archaic

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Kouros

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600 BCE marble Archaic

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West Pediment fo the Temple of Artemis

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600 BCE, Corfu Archaic

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Dying Warriors, Temple of Aphaia

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500 BCE marble Archaic

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Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice

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by Exekias 540-530 BCE terra cotta, Archaic

Black figure amphora

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Dancing Revelers

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by Euthrymides 500 BCE, terracotta, Archaic,

red figure amphora

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Classical Style

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480-323 BCE

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The Kritios Boy

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480 BCE, marble, Classical

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Poseidon/Zeus

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450 BCE Bronze, Classical

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Diskolobus

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by Myron 450 BCE Classical

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Warrior from Riace

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450 BCE bronze, Classical

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Doryphoros or Spear Bearer

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by Polykleitos 440 BCE Classical

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Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs

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460 BCE Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Classical

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Hermes

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by Praxiteles 320 BCE, Classical

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Aphrodite of Knidos

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by Praxiteles 340 BCE, Classical

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The Acropolis

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427-405 BCE Athens, Classical

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The Propylaea

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Acropolis, Athens, Classical

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The Parthenon

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Acropolis, Athens, Classical

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Athena Parthenos

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Parthenon, Acropolis in Athens, Classical

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Dionysos

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Parthenon, Acropolis in Athens, Classical

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Three Goddesses

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Parthenon, Acropolis in Athens, Classical

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Horsemen

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Parthenon, Acropolis in Athens Classical

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The Temple of Athena Nike

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Acropolis in Athens, Classical

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The Erechtheum

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Acropolis in Athens, Classical

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Theater at Epidauros

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3rd Century BCE, Classical

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Hellenistic Style

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323-31 BCE

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Dying Gaul

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230 BCE, Pergamon , Hellenistic

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Nike of Samothrace

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190 BCE Marble, Hellenistic

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Drunken Old Woman

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3rd Century, Hellenistic

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Altar of Zeus

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180 BCE, Hellenistic

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The Battle of Issos

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(The Battle of Alexander and the Persions) 100 BCE Pompeii, Hellenistic

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Amphora

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a tall ancient greek or roman jar with two handles and a narrow neck

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Krater

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a jar or vase of classical antiquity having a large round body and a wide mouth and used for mixing wine and water.

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Meander or Key pattern

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pattern normally used on greek pottery

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Black-figure

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one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases

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Red-Figure

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one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting, black background

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White-ground

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White background on greek pottery

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Kouros

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an archaic Greek statue of a young man, standing and often naked.

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Kore

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an archaic Greek statue of a young woman, standing and clothed in long loose robes.

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Doric Order

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-the earliest and simplest of the greek architectural styles, consisting of relatively short, squat columns, sometimes unfluted and a simple, square shaped capital.

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Ionic Order

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a moderatly ornate greek architectural style introuduced from asia minor and characterized by spiral scrolls

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Volute

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a spiral scroll characteristic of Ionic capitals and also used in Corinthian and composite capitals.

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Architrave

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(in classical architecture) a main beam resting across the tops of columns, specifically the lower third entablature.

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Peripteral temple

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having a row of columns on all sides

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ballustrade

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An entire railing system including a top rail, balusters-(spindles), and a bottom rail. Found either inside or outside a building.

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Corinthian Order

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  • the most ornate of the greek architectual styles, characterized by slender, fluted columns and capitals with an acanthus leaf design
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Caryatid

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building column shaped like a female figure

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Contrapposto

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Italian term meaning “set against” used to describe the pose that results from setting parts of the body in opposition to each other around a central axis

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encaustic

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hot colored wax

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foreshortening

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an illusion created on a flat surface in which figures and objects appear to recede or project sharply into space. accomplished according to the rules of perspective

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lost-wax technique

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A bronze-casting method in which a figure is modeled in wax and covered with clay; the whole is fired, melting away the wax and hardening the clay, which then becomes a mold for molten metal

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archaic smile

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the smile that appears on greek statuary from 570 to 480 BC

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agora

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“assembly”
square or marketplace
center of public life in every ancient Greek city

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Frieze

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in a classical order, the middle horizontal division of an entablature, usually decorated with sculpture
An elevated horizontal decorative band on a wall

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Metope

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A square space between triglyphs, often decorated with sculpture.

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Triglyph

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a tablet in a Doric frieze with three vertical grooves. Triglyphs alternate with metopes.

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Cornice

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projecting molding on buildings

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Entablature

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consist of an architrave, frieze, and cornice.

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Pediment

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in Classical architecture, the triangular element supported by columns

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Naos

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the chamber at the center of an ancient temple

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