Greece Flashcards
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Geometric Krater from Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, 740 BC
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Hero and Centaur from Olympia, 740 BC (Geometric)
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Mantiklos Apollo from Thebes, 700 BC (Archaic)
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Corinthian Black-Figure Amphora with Animal Friezes, 600 BC (Orientalizing)
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Architrave from the Temple of Athena at Assos with Herakles and Centaurs, 540 BC (Archaic)
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Kouros (Met Kouros), 600 BCE (Archaic)
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Kroisos Kouros from Anavissos, 530 BC, Archaic
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Calf Bearer from Acropolis, Athens, 560 BC (Archaic)
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Lady of Auxerre, 650 BC (Archaic)
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Kore from the Acropolis, Athens, 520 BC
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Pediment from Temple of Artemis, Corfu, 600 BC (Archaic)
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Dying Warrior from West Pediment, Temple of Aphaia, 500 BC
Dying Warrior from the East Pediment, Temple of Aphaia, 480 BC
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East Pediment, Temple of Zeus Olympia, Chariot Race of Pelops and Oenomaus, 470 BC
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Exekias, Achilles Killing Penthesilea, 540 BCE (black figure amphora) (Archaic)
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Exekias, Ajax and Achilles Playing Dice, 540 BC (black figure) (Archaic)
Euphronios, Herakles Wrestling Antaios, 510 BC (red figure)
Euthymides, Three Revelers, 510 BC (red figure) (amphora)
Kritios Boy, from Acropolis, Athens 480 BC
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Myron, Discobolus, 450 BC (Classical)
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Zeus from Artemesion Cape, 460 BC (Classical)
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Warrior from Riace, 460 BC (Classical)
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Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) “The Canon” 450 BC
Kresilas, Pericles, 430 BC
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Iktinos and Kallikrates, Parthenon (Temple of Athena Parthenos), 445 BC
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Workshop of Phidias, Athena Parthenos, 420 BC
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Workshop of Phidias, Metope from Parthenon, Centauromachy, 435 BC
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Workshop of Phidias, Three Goddess Figures, East Pediment of Parthenon, 435 BC
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Workshop of Phidias, Panathenaic Procession Frieze, Interior of Parthenon, 435 BC
Temple of Athena Nike, Athenian Acropolis, 420 BC
Workshop of Phidias, Nike Removing her Sandals, 420 BC
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Posthumous Portrait of Alexander the Great, from Pella, 200 BC
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Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, 350 BC
Praxiteles (attr.), Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, 340 BC
Lysippos, Weary Herakles, 320 BC
Philoxenos of Eretria, Battle of Issus (Alexander and Darius III), 310 BC
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Lysippos(?), Seated Boxer, 100 BC
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Epignos(?), Gallic Chieftain Killing Himself and His Wife, 220 BC
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Epignos(?), The Dying Gaul, 220 BC
Winged Nike of Samothrace, 190 BC
Laocoön, 200 BC-70 AD
Athanadoros, Hagesandros and Polydoros of Rhodes, Head of Odysseus, Early 1st Century BC
Dark Age
Period following the late Bronze Age collapse, during which civilization was subdued, art generally was not produced, and we have little written record.
Geometric Style
Style of art characterized by highly stylized figures made of geometric shapes
Orientalizing Style
As Greece resumed trade with other civilizations, they adopted their art forms (especially Egypt)
Archaic Period
The Kouros/Kore figures became prevalent; lots of Egyptian influence; smile; advent of life-size sculpture
Emphasis on life rather than death
Sure enough
Classical revolution
480 BC
Greek Dark Ages dates
1200-800 BC
Greek Archaic Age dates
800-500 BC
Greek Classical Period dates
500-323 BC
Greek Hellenistic Period dates
323-146 BC
Doric order
Plain columns with no base and a simple, rounded capital. Triglyphs and metopes on the frieze.
Ionic order
More slender columns with a base and a volute (double scroll) capital. The frieze is a continuous relief carving.
Corinthian (order)
Columns have an ornamental, acanthus-leaf capital.
Cella
The main interior space of the temple where the cult statue of the temple’s god resides.
