Chapter 9 Archaic Cultural Revolution 800 - 480 BC Flashcards
Ionia
Greeks escaping Dark Age problems on mainland Greece settled here; claimed to be descendants of a man named Ion.
Miletus
in b/t Ephesus and Halicarnassus
Ionian Enlightenment
fusion of Meso. learning and new Greek institutions in 6th cent.
Thales
(580) - major thinker, wrote nothing, watned to explain material cuase of things.
- natural philosopher
- thought primary element that was the source of everything is water
Anaximander
(550) - developed theories as criticism of Thales
- suggested that Earth hung freely in nothingness; primary element must be infinite
Anaximenes
(520) - took over Anaximander’s thought but, found ohw substances transformed.
- infinite = air; rarefraction and condensation
Pythagoras
from Samos, pushed Milesian thought toward math, mysticism and politics
Herodotus
(484) - first systematic attempt to explain human event in human terms
historie
“inquiry” now means “history”, a rational, orderly investigation into human events.
-Used to describe study of past
Archilochus
earliest and most celebrated lyric poet
- fighter and proud of it
- from 7th century, wrote comedy about sexual adventure
daedalic style
Egyptian like wig named after Daedalus that built the Labrynth for King Minos
pediments
at front and back of temples, triangular area under roofs
Naucratis
port that all Greek merchants agreed to operate out of in the Nile Delta
kouros
young men
kore
young women
cella
long main room
Ripe Corinthian
(625) - style favoring dense texture of detail of Eastern inspiration, like tapestry
Protoattic
wild 7th century style developed in Athens
black figure
(6th cent) - Athenian painters wedded inventiveness of protoattic with precision of Corinthian and developed this
red figured
(530) - painters painted background with slip and left figures the color of pot. Reverse of black figured.
