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Chapter 5: Ancient Greece Flashcards

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Symposium

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Dinner party men and prostitutes attended, popular subject of painted vases.

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Geometric Period

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Return of human figures, small bronze figurines, and ceramic paintings.

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Dipylon Krater

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Earliest example of Greek figure painting. Features abstract angular motifs in horizontal bands. Depicts scenes of mourning and procession in honor of dead. Geometric period.

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Krater

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Large open-mouthed vessel used to mix wine with water.

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Amphora

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Two handled storage jar.

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Hero and Centaur Sculpture

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Geometric small bronze sculpture depicting a hero battling a centaur. Simple and stylized shapes. Geometric period.

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Orientalizing Period

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Accelerated trade introduced Egyptian and Mesopotamian motifs to Greek art.

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Mantiklos Apollo

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Small bronze statue (votive offering) dedicated to Apollo and is likely depicting him. Reveals the Greeks interest in representing human anatomy. Orientalizing period.

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Corinthian Amphora

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Black figure technique (incised details on black silhouettes) depicting animals. Orientalizing Period.

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Daedalic Art

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Greeks brought into contact with stone Egyptian architecture.

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Lady of Auxerre from Crete

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Praying limestone kore has triangular face and hair. More naturalistic than geometric art but still features abstract shapes. Daedalic period.

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Archaic Period

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Daedalus worked in Egypt, influence of Egyptian art and architecture on Greek art.

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Kouros

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Earliest life-sized statues of young men adopted Egyptian pose for standing figures. Nude and liberated from stone block. Funerary function and used as votive offerings. Archaic period.

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Archaic Smile

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Indicates the person portrayed is alive. Figures smile even at bad times. Examples are Calf Bearer (one of the first to employ smile) and Kroisos (naturalistic proportions).

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Women Archaic statues

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Always clothed - Peplos Kore and Kore in Ionian Dress.

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Temple of Hera I

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Peristyle, doric temple honoring goddess Hera. Heavy, close spaced, bulky columns and its pancake like capitals are characteristic of Archaic architecture.

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Siphnian Treasury

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Storehouses for votive offerings. Ionic treasury featuring caryatids and sculptures in the pediment and frieze. Archaic.

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Vase Painting

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Athenians learned black figure technique from Corinthians.

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Exekias Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game

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Master of black figure paintings. Dramatic, coordination of figures and vase shape, intricacy of engraved patterns on cloaks. Archaic.

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Red Figure Painting

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Invented by the Andokides Painter. Bilingual vases which feature same scene on both sides but one is black figure and other is red figure. Soft brush varies line thickness and wider range of colors.

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Euphronios

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Master of red-figure painting. Created golden brown by diluting glaze. Wished to show his figures took up space. How a particular human body is seen. (Herakles wrestling Antaios). Archaic.

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Euthymides

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Rival of Euphronios. Wanted an excuse to represent bodies in unusual positions, including foreshortened three-quarter rear view. Archaic.

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Aegina

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Transition to classical period.

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Temple of Aphaia, Aegina.

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6 by 12 doric columns. Slender and more widely spaced columns. Double two-story colonnade in cella, allowing a statue to be placed in the center. Used whole range of body postures to fill pediment.

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Classical Period.

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Removal of Persian threat. Famous architects, sculptor and painters.

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Temple of Hera II

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Architect was Libon of Elis. No pediment sculpture. Classical period.

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Herakles

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Founded the Olympic games. 12 labors were subject of 12 metopes of Zeus temple.

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Seer Statue

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Balding figure is a rare depiction of old age in Classical sculpture. Shocked expression because he foresees outcome of chariot race. Marble. Classical period.

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Kritios Boy

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First statue to show how a person naturally stands. Severe style depicts weight shift from one leg to the other. The head is turned slightly, and the Archaic smile is gone. Classical period.

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Zeus Hollow-Cast Bronze Statue

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Zeus hurling a thunderbolt. Underscoring lightness and stability of hollow-cast bronze statues. Classical period.

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Discus Thrower

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Created by Myron. Original is lost but there exists a marble copy. Frozen action pose. The body and limbs form intersecting arcs. Tension is created because of this however the face is expressionless and doesn’t show it. Classical period.

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Polykleitos Spear Bearer

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Perfect statue harmonic proportions and system of cross balancing for all parts of the body. Frequently copied. Canon. Contrapposto. Classical period.

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Contrapposto

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counterbalance, weight shift.

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Kresilas Pericles Portrait

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Noble man appears even nobler. Idealized image in which humans appeared godlike. Classical period.

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Athens Acropolis

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Pericles transformation consisted of a new entrance (Propylaia) and three shrines: Parthenon, Erechtheion, and the temple of Athena Nike. High Classical period.

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Propylaia

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Entrance of acropolis. Architect was Mnesikles. Split into eastern and western sections. Doric for exterior and Ionic for interior. May have been the first structure built for displaying paintings. High Classical period.

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Erechtheion

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Honored Athena, Erechtheus (Athena statue fell from heavens), an early king of Athens, Kekrops (judge of contest), another king of Athens. Ionic temple with some of the finest decorative details. Asymmetrical form to incorporate preexisting shrines. Features caryatids on south porch. High Classical period.

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Polygnotos of Thasos

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Lead painter of classical period. Figures in various levels and depicted landscapes. (Niobid Painter, Artemis and Apollo slaying the children of Niobe - reflects compositions of Polygnotos). Classical Period.

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Temple of Athena Nike

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Designed by Kallikrates, a small Ionic temple. Amphiprostyle meaning colonnade is across the front and back of the temple. Four columns of east and west facades. Frieze depicts battle at Marathon. Classical period.

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White-Ground Painting

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Achilles Painter Warrior taking leave of his wife. Colors applied after firing. Impermanent wide range of colors.

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Youth diving mural painting

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Rare example of classical mural painting. Symbolizes deceased plunge into the underworld. Classical period.

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Aphrodite of Knidos

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First nude statue of a Greek goddess. Classical period.

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Late Classical Period

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Peloponnesian War

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Grave Stele of a young hunter

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High Classical period reflects style of Skopas of Paros. Emotional intensity of old man mourning the loss of his son. Late classical.

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Lysippos, Scraper

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New canon of proportions, statues with nervous energy. Viewing his statue from multiple angles. (Weary Herakles stature - must lean on club for support). Late classical.

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Head of Alexander the Great

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Done by Lysippos. Features sharp turn of the head and thick mane of hair. Late classical.

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Pella mosaics

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Made with naturally colored pebbles. Late classical.

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Hades abducting Persephone wall painting

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Characteristics of mural painting from Alexander the Great’s time.

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Theater of Epidauros

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Finest in Greece, seat 12,000 spectators. Classical period.

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Theodoros of Phokaia, tholos at Delphi

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Best preserved example of round temple, doric columns exterior and Corinthian columns interior. Classical period.

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Corinthian Capital

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Ornate with leaves and flowers.

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Hellenistic Period

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Death of Alexander the Great. Rich.

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Temple of Apollo

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Early Hellenistic. Element of surprise, unfinished worked on for more than five centuries.

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Hippodamian Plan

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Grid of streets all met at right angles. Separate quarters for public, private, and religious affairs. Hellenistic period.

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Pergamon frieze

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Battle scenes with emotional power, gigantomachy. Violent and suffering. Hellenistic period.

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Gallic chieftain killing himself and his wife.

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Suffering Pergamene statuary of Hellenistic period.

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Nike on warship

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Wind sweeps drapery, placement in fountain of splashing water heightens dramatic effect. Hellenistic period.

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Venus de Milo Aphrodite statue

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More overtly sexual than previous statue. Slipping garment teases viewers, displays eroticism of Hellenistic period.

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Old Market woman

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Realism portraying elderly. Hellenistic period.

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Laocoon and his sons statue

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