Chapter 3 Vocabulary

Question 1

Amphora

Answer 1

A two-handled jar with a narrow neck used by the ancient Greeks and Romans to carry wine or oil

Question 2

Kore

Answer 2

A sculpture representing a standing young woman clothed in long robes

Question 3

Kouros

Answer 3

A sculpture representing a nude young man

Question 4

Agora

Answer 4

A place of congregation, especially an Ancient Greek marketplace

Question 5

Stoa

Answer 5

An Ancient Greek covered walk or colonnade, usually with columns and one side and a wall on the other

Question 6

Peplos

Answer 6

A loose outer robe worn by women in Ancient Greece, AKA Peplum

Question 7

Chiton

Answer 7

A marine mollusk that lives on rocks and has a shell consisting of eight overlapping calcareous plates

Question 8

Peristyle

Answer 8

Building enclosed by columns

Question 9

Pronaos

Answer 9

The inner area of the portico of a Greek or Roman temple, leading to the cella

Question 10

Cella

Answer 10

The inner area or room of a Greek of Roman temple where the statue of the god was stored

Question 11

Opisthodomos

Answer 11

A porch at the rear of a temple, set against the blank wall of the cella

Question 12

Caryatids

Answer 12

Supporting columns sculptured in the form of a draped female figure

Question 13

Apollonius

Answer 13

Clear, harmonious, restrained

Question 14

Dionysian

Answer 14

Wild, irrational and undisciplined