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

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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)

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Euphronios, Herakles Wrestling Antaios, 510 BC (red figure)

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Euthymides, Three Revelers, 510 BC (red figure) (amphora)

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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

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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

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Temple of Athena Nike, Athenian Acropolis, 420 BC

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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

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Praxiteles (attr.), Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, 340 BC

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Lysippos, Weary Herakles, 320 BC

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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

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Winged Nike of Samothrace, 190 BC

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Laocoön, 200 BC-70 AD

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Athanadoros, Hagesandros and Polydoros of Rhodes, Head of Odysseus, Early 1st Century BC

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Dark Age

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Period following the late Bronze Age collapse, during which civilization was subdued, art generally was not produced, and we have little written record.

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Geometric Style

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Style of art characterized by highly stylized figures made of geometric shapes

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Orientalizing Style

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As Greece resumed trade with other civilizations, they adopted their art forms (especially Egypt)

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Archaic Period

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The Kouros/Kore figures became prevalent; lots of Egyptian influence; smile; advent of life-size sculpture

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Emphasis on life rather than death

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Sure enough

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Classical revolution

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480 BC

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Greek Dark Ages dates

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1200-800 BC

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Greek Archaic Age dates

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800-500 BC

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Greek Classical Period dates

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500-323 BC

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Greek Hellenistic Period dates

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323-146 BC

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Doric order

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Plain columns with no base and a simple, rounded capital. Triglyphs and metopes on the frieze.

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Ionic order

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More slender columns with a base and a volute (double scroll) capital. The frieze is a continuous relief carving.

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Corinthian (order)

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Columns have an ornamental, acanthus-leaf capital.

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Cella

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The main interior space of the temple where the cult statue of the temple’s god resides.