Ancient Greece Flashcards
Geometric Style
900-700 BCE
Geometric Amphora
750 BCE Diplyon cemetery
terracotta
Archaic Style
700-480 BCE
Siphnian Treasury
525 BCE Delphi Archaic
The Temple of Hera I
550 BC Paestrum, Italy Archaic
The Temple of Hera II
500 BCE Paestrum, Italy Archaic
Kore
630 BCE limestone Archaic
Kouros
600 BCE marble Archaic
West Pediment fo the Temple of Artemis
600 BCE, Corfu Archaic
Dying Warriors, Temple of Aphaia
500 BCE marble Archaic
Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice
by Exekias 540-530 BCE terra cotta, Archaic
Black figure amphora
Dancing Revelers
by Euthrymides 500 BCE, terracotta, Archaic,
red figure amphora
Classical Style
480-323 BCE
The Kritios Boy
480 BCE, marble, Classical
Poseidon/Zeus
450 BCE Bronze, Classical
Diskolobus
by Myron 450 BCE Classical
Warrior from Riace
450 BCE bronze, Classical
Doryphoros or Spear Bearer
by Polykleitos 440 BCE Classical
Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
460 BCE Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Classical
Hermes
by Praxiteles 320 BCE, Classical
Aphrodite of Knidos
by Praxiteles 340 BCE, Classical
The Acropolis
427-405 BCE Athens, Classical
The Propylaea
Acropolis, Athens, Classical
The Parthenon
Acropolis, Athens, Classical
Athena Parthenos
Parthenon, Acropolis in Athens, Classical
Dionysos
Parthenon, Acropolis in Athens, Classical
Three Goddesses
Parthenon, Acropolis in Athens, Classical
Horsemen
Parthenon, Acropolis in Athens Classical
The Temple of Athena Nike
Acropolis in Athens, Classical
The Erechtheum
Acropolis in Athens, Classical
Theater at Epidauros
3rd Century BCE, Classical
Hellenistic Style
323-31 BCE
Dying Gaul
230 BCE, Pergamon , Hellenistic
Nike of Samothrace
190 BCE Marble, Hellenistic
Drunken Old Woman
3rd Century, Hellenistic
Altar of Zeus
180 BCE, Hellenistic
The Battle of Issos
(The Battle of Alexander and the Persions) 100 BCE Pompeii, Hellenistic
Amphora
a tall ancient greek or roman jar with two handles and a narrow neck
Krater
a jar or vase of classical antiquity having a large round body and a wide mouth and used for mixing wine and water.
Meander or Key pattern
pattern normally used on greek pottery
Black-figure
one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases
Red-Figure
one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting, black background
White-ground
White background on greek pottery
Kouros
an archaic Greek statue of a young man, standing and often naked.
Kore
an archaic Greek statue of a young woman, standing and clothed in long loose robes.
Doric Order
-the earliest and simplest of the greek architectural styles, consisting of relatively short, squat columns, sometimes unfluted and a simple, square shaped capital.
Ionic Order
a moderatly ornate greek architectural style introuduced from asia minor and characterized by spiral scrolls
Volute
a spiral scroll characteristic of Ionic capitals and also used in Corinthian and composite capitals.
Architrave
(in classical architecture) a main beam resting across the tops of columns, specifically the lower third entablature.
Peripteral temple
having a row of columns on all sides
ballustrade
An entire railing system including a top rail, balusters-(spindles), and a bottom rail. Found either inside or outside a building.
Corinthian Order
- the most ornate of the greek architectual styles, characterized by slender, fluted columns and capitals with an acanthus leaf design
Caryatid
building column shaped like a female figure
Contrapposto
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
encaustic
hot colored wax
foreshortening
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
lost-wax technique
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
archaic smile
the smile that appears on greek statuary from 570 to 480 BC
agora
“assembly”
square or marketplace
center of public life in every ancient Greek city
Frieze
in a classical order, the middle horizontal division of an entablature, usually decorated with sculpture
An elevated horizontal decorative band on a wall
Metope
A square space between triglyphs, often decorated with sculpture.
Triglyph
a tablet in a Doric frieze with three vertical grooves. Triglyphs alternate with metopes.
Cornice
projecting molding on buildings
Entablature
consist of an architrave, frieze, and cornice.
Pediment
in Classical architecture, the triangular element supported by columns
Naos
the chamber at the center of an ancient temple
