Handouts 4-7 Greek Facts

Question 1

What is contrapposto?

Answer 1

weight shift

Question 2

When was potters wheel invented?

Answer 2

2000 BCE

Question 3

Characteristics of Doric and Ionic order

Answer 3

Doric: Male, non-continuous frieze, plain capitol and column, triglyphs and metopes
Ionic: Volute columns, continuous frieze, female

Question 4

The order of the time periods?

Answer 4

Geometric, Oriental, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic

Question 5

Define hubris and nemesis

Answer 5

Hubris=pride

nemesis=too much pride

Question 6

Name the three sculptors of Greece

Answer 6

Polykleitos, Myron, Phidias

Question 7

Which architects made the parthenon

Answer 7

Iktinos and Kallikrates

Question 8

What is the delian league

Answer 8

Formed after Persians defeated. A Hellenic alliance, led by athenians

Question 9

True or False: Parthenon has all Doric feautures

Answer 9

False, outer doric, inside ionic

Question 10

What was the orientalizing period?

Answer 10

A transition phase, took inspiration from Near East, Egypt, Syria, Phoenicia

Question 11

How does Greek and Egyptian sculpture differ?

Answer 11

Greek is nude. And Greek is liberated from original stone block, egypts obsession with permanence was alien to Greek psychology and so philosophy

Question 12

What did the archaic period develop?

Answer 12

Life size stone statue, Kouros and Kore, and change from black figure to red figure vase painting

Question 13

What are virtues set forth by the Iliad?

Answer 13

Friendship, loyalty, courage, death/value of human liofe

Question 14

What are characteristics of Early Classical Sculpture?

Answer 14

Archaic smile gone, harmonious proportions, increased self awareness, and bronze sculpture

Question 15

Anthropocentric Universe

Answer 15

man-centered universe

Question 16

What culture created comedy/tragedy?

Answer 16

Greek culture, created since they had no illusions of life

Question 17

What did the greeks want in all things?

Answer 17

harmony, order, balance, stability, calm,

Question 18

Difference between ethos and pathos

Answer 18

Ethos=central attribute of one’s character, self-discipline

Pathos=personal emotion

Question 19

What kind of tomb was the Royal Treasury of Artreus? And what is so special about the Treasury?

Answer 19

Beehive tomb, largest unobstructed space in antiquity

Question 20

What are traditional Greek ideals and attitudes?

Answer 20

Positive rational mind, individualism, harmony

Question 21

What are major changes in making hellenistic sculpture?

Answer 21

Non-classical, not ideal
See portrayal of Women and Goddesses
See human reality and emotions
Emphasis on drapery
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Question 22

What is a stoa?

Answer 22

roofed colonnade or portico

Question 23

Who created the S-curve in sculpture?

Answer 23

Myron

Question 24

Who came up with the Greek Canon of Proportions?

Answer 24

Polykleitos

Question 25

What did Phidias sculpt?

Answer 25

Gods and Goddesses

Question 26

What are the Krater and Amphora designs?

Answer 26

vase shapes

Question 27

Who was Homer?

Answer 27

8th century blind poet from Aegean Islands or Asia Minor

Question 28

Who is Achilles?

Answer 28

chief hero in the Iliad; symbolizes youth and strength

Question 29

What is a corbel?

Answer 29

an overlapping arrangement of stones, each course projecting beyond the one below, used in construction of arch or vault

Question 30

Differentiate between Mycenaean and Minoan Megarons

Answer 30

Mycenaean: true megaron; a large (three chambered) rectangular structure, fronted by an open two-columned porch; fundamental building type; the architectural basis for all Greek temples

Minoan: not a true megaron; scattered and lack of order, non-geometric

Question 31

What is vault?

Answer 31

an arched roof or ceiling