Greek vocab

Question 1

Encaustic

Answer 1

Pigment + beeswax= paint
fades/cracks away quickly

Question 2

Fresco

Answer 2

Pigments painted into wet plaster

Question 3

Sarcophagus

Answer 3

Tomb/casket
latin for consumer of flesh

Question 4

Cyclopean Masonry

Answer 4

Mycenaean building technique. stacking roughly cut stone into walls and vaults

Question 5

Corbeled vault

Answer 5

rows of masonry stacked so that each row projects beyond the one below. Eventually both sides meet

Question 6

Tholos Tomb

Answer 6

“behive tomb”, domed tomb structure

Question 7

Krater

Answer 7

cerimonial mixing bowl for water and wine, also used as burial markers

Question 8

Amphora

Answer 8

two handled storage jar

Question 9

Kouros

Answer 9

“male youth”, replaced krater as grave marker

Question 10

Archaic Smile

Answer 10

unnatural smile found on archaic period statues

Question 11

Capital

Answer 11

Top of column

Question 12

Doric-order

Answer 12

earliest and most simplistic style of Greek capital

Question 13

Ionic-order

Answer 13

second capital style, looks like the top of a capital i

Question 14

Corinthian-order

Answer 14

last style of capital, looks like an upside-down Acanthus plant

Question 15

Pediment

Answer 15

triangular area in front+rear of temple, directly below roof

Question 16

Cornice

Answer 16

Projecting “roof” that covers the statues on top of the temple column

Question 17

Frieze

Answer 17

Empty shelf to place statues on

Question 18

Architrave

Answer 18

“floor” that the statues in the frieze rest on

Question 19

Entasis

Answer 19

Cigar shape used in some columns, why some columns have a wider base

Question 20

Bilingual vase

Answer 20

Black-figure painting on one side, red-figure painting on the other side