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Ancient Greece has had an outsized impact on _____ despite _____

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European and Western culture and its small size

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divisions of Ancient Greek

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  1. Archaic
  2. Classical
  3. Hellnistic
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Archaic division

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600 - 480 BCE

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classical division

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480 to 323 BCE

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Hellenistic division

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323 to 31 BCE

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The Parthenon is the

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central temple on the Acropolis in Athens

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The Parthenon is in

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classical Greece

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Temples often hold

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looted artifacts

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where would temples usually be located

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in hard to access spots

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Metropolitan Kouros

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archaic Greece

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kouros

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young male

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a kouros is a

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free standing sculpture

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free-standing sculpture

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attached to architecture

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kore

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female structure

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korai

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female plural

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kouroi

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male plural

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what is common for males in kouros art

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they are naked

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why are male kouros naked

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represent something in between a god, warrior, or victorious athlete

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where are kouros found

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  1. cemeteries
  2. line the path to temples
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how do kouros differ from Egyptian

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nude, except for the neckband and hairband.
One foot forward, but little sense of actual movement
bodies very geometric.
Function

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how is archaic different from other Greek divisions

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it’s more linked to death and less public life

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similarities of Ka statutes to Kouros

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The male poses are similar
The arms are down with hands in fists
The foot is forward

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what suggests there was cultural contact between Greece and Egypt

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the similar poses of the Ka statues and the kouros

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differences of the Kouros to the Egyptian Ka Statues

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The Greek kneecaps are softer and almost more realistic and naturalistic
The Greek has gaps around the arms while the Egyptian has a solid rock
Greece is almost always fully naked

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Berlin Kore

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Archaic Greek

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kore are always

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clothed

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kore are usually holding

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devotional objects

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kore is usually found

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in temples and making offerings to the goddess

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kore have more _____ because of the _____

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variation and clothing

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archaic smile

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those staring eyes like Mesopotamian, but tight close-mouthed smile very identifiable

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contrapposto

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pose that shows a figure with weight shifted to one weight-bearing leg, which means other knee bends and hip lifts, so bent leg ready to move

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contrapposto results in

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other shifts in the body (across the arms and head) and it is the pose that makes you ready for movement

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key to increased naturalism

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contrapposto

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mark is the beginning of the Early classical period.

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contrapposto

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The development in Greek art of contrapposto is a marked step towards increasingly naturalistic art (2)

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Greeks unite to defeat a much stronger force of Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE

Development of democracy in Athens over the course of the 500s BCE, which is solidified in the 400s BCE, particularly when Athens is led by Perikles

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Dying Warrior (that is on the right)

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archaic

37
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what was highly valued in ancient Greek culture.

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stoicism

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stoicism

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having control over your emotions and showing little emotion

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stoicism in Greek philosophy

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accepting your fate, treating others justly and living a virtuous life, even if those virtues might seem quite different than how we would define them today

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Riace Warrior

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classical period

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Riace warrior was made from

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bronze

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what did bronze allow but marble did not

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can be shaped into more poses and have greater freedom

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how does the Riace warrior differ from the koroi

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these are adult males

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what signifies an adult male

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beards
musculation

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what is important in the Riace Warrior

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evidence of contrapposto

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why are there very limited bronze statues

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Bronze would be melted down in times of need

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types of columns

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  1. doric
  2. ionic
  3. corinthian
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doric column

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No bases, simple capital, entablature only has sculptures in the metope

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ionic column

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a. Bases are fluting in column
b. The capitals have spirals
Continous sculpture on frieze of entablature

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corinthian column

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Most notable with the elaborate capitals

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what does the centaur show in the Centaur vs Lapith

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The centaur represents the symbolic degradation of culture
The Greeks wanted to suppress and eliminate the animal of us all
It was against stoicism - a figure of madness

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Canon or proportions

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set of rules that describes the “best” proportions- that gives ratios that determine the relation of parts to the whole

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Woman’s role in society

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main duty was to bear children, especially sons
Carrying and collecting water

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History of the nude in Greek art

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Nudes depicted on vases, but usually sexual or low class

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How Hellenistic differs from classical

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  1. Composition complex
    1. Faces show emotions for one of the first times, less about stoicism
  2. there is more than one figure, which shows more of a story

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