Chapter 9 Archaic Cultural Revolution 800 - 480 BC

Question 1

Ionia

Answer 1

Greeks escaping Dark Age problems on mainland Greece settled here; claimed to be descendants of a man named Ion.

Question 2

Miletus

Answer 2

in b/t Ephesus and Halicarnassus

Question 3

Ionian Enlightenment

Answer 3

fusion of Meso. learning and new Greek institutions in 6th cent.

Question 4

Thales

Answer 4

(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

Question 5

Anaximander

Answer 5

(550) - developed theories as criticism of Thales

- suggested that Earth hung freely in nothingness; primary element must be infinite

Question 6

Anaximenes

Answer 6

(520) - took over Anaximander’s thought but, found ohw substances transformed.
- infinite = air; rarefraction and condensation

Question 7

Pythagoras

Answer 7

from Samos, pushed Milesian thought toward math, mysticism and politics

Question 8

Herodotus

Answer 8

(484) - first systematic attempt to explain human event in human terms

Question 9

historie

Answer 9

“inquiry” now means “history”, a rational, orderly investigation into human events.
-Used to describe study of past

Question 10

Archilochus

Answer 10

earliest and most celebrated lyric poet

• fighter and proud of it
• from 7th century, wrote comedy about sexual adventure

Question 11

daedalic style

Answer 11

Egyptian like wig named after Daedalus that built the Labrynth for King Minos

Question 12

pediments

Answer 12

at front and back of temples, triangular area under roofs

Question 13

Naucratis

Answer 13

port that all Greek merchants agreed to operate out of in the Nile Delta

Question 14

kouros

Answer 14

young men

Question 15

kore

Answer 15

young women

Question 16

cella

Answer 16

long main room

Question 17

Ripe Corinthian

Answer 17

(625) - style favoring dense texture of detail of Eastern inspiration, like tapestry

Question 18

Protoattic

Answer 18

wild 7th century style developed in Athens

Question 19

black figure

Answer 19

(6th cent) - Athenian painters wedded inventiveness of protoattic with precision of Corinthian and developed this

Question 20

red figured

Answer 20

(530) - painters painted background with slip and left figures the color of pot. Reverse of black figured.