Ancient Greece Flashcards
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- Geometric Krater
- From the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 740 B.C.
- Meander (key) pattern of horizontal bands, Geometric Vase
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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- Hero and Centaur (Herakles and Nessus)
- ca. 750-730 B.C.
- Geometric, Chiron had human front legs
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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- Mantiklos (Sculptor) Apollo
- From Thebes, Greece ca. 700-680 B.C.
- Bronze statuette, Orientalizing Art
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Corinthian Black Figure Amphora
- From Rhodes, Greece ca. 625-600 B.C.
- Orientalizing, Black Figure
- British Museum, London
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- Lintel of Temple A
- From Prinias, Greece ca. 625 B.C.
- Orientalizing reliefs
- Archeological Museum, Herakleion
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- Lady Of Auxerre (Mantiklos)
- Limestone kore ca. 650-625 B.C.
- Orientalizing
- Louvre, Paris
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- New York Kouros ca. 600 B.C.
- Archaic, nude, almost Egyptian
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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- Calf Bearer (Moschophoros)
- Dedicated by Rhonbos on the Acropolis, Athens, ca. 560 B.C.
- Thin cloak, smiling, Archaic
- Acropolis Museum, Athens
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- Anavysos Kouros (for Kroisos)
- Grave marker from Anavysos, Greece ca. 530 B.C.
- Painted in encaustic (wax), Archaic
- National Archeological Museum, Athens
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- Peplos Kore
- From the Acropolis, Athens ca. 530 B.C.
- Archaic
- Acropolis Museum, Athens
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- Kore from the Acropolis, Athens ca. 510 B.C.
- Archaic
- Acropolis Museum, Athens
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- Temple of Hera (“Basilica”)
- Paestum, Italy ca. 550 B.C.
- Doric temple
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- West Pediment from the Temple of Artemis
- From Corfu, Greece ca. 600-580 B.C.
- Archaic, limestone, medusa and felines
- Gigantomachy and Trojan War
- Archeological Museum, Corfu
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- Siphian Treasury
- From Delphi, Greece ca. 530 B.C.
- Ionic, Caryatids
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- Gigantomachy on the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury
- From Delphi, Greece ca. 530 B.C.
- Archaic, Ionic
- Archaelogical Museum, Delphi
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- Francois Vase (Kleitias and Ergotimos)
- From Chiusi, Italy, ca. 570 B.C.
- Attic Black Figure Volute Krater, Centauromachy
- Museo Archeologico, Florence
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- Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game (Exekias)
- Black Figure
- From Vulci, Italy ca. 540-530 B.C.
- Vatican Museum, Rome
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- Achilles and Ajax playing dice (Andokides)
- From Orvieto, Italy ca. 525-520 B.C.
- Bilingual painting, amphora
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Herakles wrestling Antaeus (Euphronios)
- from Cerveteri, Italy ca. 510 B.C.
- Attic red figure calyx krater
- Louvre, Paris
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- Three Revelers (Euthymides)
- From Vulci, Italy ca. 510 B.C.
- Amphora, foreshortening
- Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
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- Girl preparing to bathe (Onesimos)
- Interior of an Attic red figure kylix, nude, foreshortened
- From Chiusi, Italy ca. 490 B.C.
- Musees Royaux, Brussels
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- Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece ca. 500-490 B.C.
- Doric columns
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- West Pediment of the Temple of Aphaia
- Aegina, Greece ca. 500-490 B.C.
- Dying warrior, Archaic
- Glyptothek, Munich
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- Dying Warrior from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia
- ca. 490-480 B.C
- Beginning of Classicism
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- East pediment from the Temple of Zeus
- Olympia, Greece ca. 470-456 B.C.
- Chariot race of Pelops
- Horrified seer officially classical
- Archeological Museum, Olympia
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- Athena, Herakles, and Atlas witht the apples of the Hesperides
- Metope from the Temple of Zeus
- Classical
- Archeological Museum, Olympia
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- Kritios Boy
- From the Acropolis, Athens, Greece ca. 480 B.C.
- Contrapposto
- Acropolis Museum, Athens
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- Riace Warrior
- From Riace, Italy ca. 460-450
- Bronze, contrapposto, classical
- Archeological Museum, Reggio Calabria