Lectures 1 - 4 Flashcards
demos, kratia
Rule of the people
Unlike modern ___________ democracy, ancient Athenian democracy involved the _____________ _____________ of every adult male citizen.
representative, direct participation
Greek drama was performed in the setting of a ________ _________ in honor of the god ______________.
religious festival, Dionysus
The rediscovery of the Greeks was the product of German historian and art critic ______________ _______________ and the “____________ movement” of the ____ and ____ centuries.
Johannes Winkelmann, philhellenic, 18th and 19th
Philhellenic
Lovers of the Greeks
Greece was under the control of the Turkish empire until the ______ ______ century
early 19th
Alterité
Seeing in another culture the opposite of oneself
Greek Bronze Age Time Period
3000-1100 b.c.
Greek Geometric Age Time Period
900-700 b.c.
Greek Archaic Age Time Period
700 - 480 b.c.
Greek Classical Age Time Period
480-323 b.c.
The scale of architectural complexity in Bronze-Age Crete, from ___________., is unlike anything previously seen in the Greek world, and it has earned the label of “___________ ___________.”
1900–1400 B.C, palatial society
Demeter
Earth mother
Fresco excavated at Knossos - called La Parisenne by Sir Arthur Evans’ team because she looked like a beautiful Persian girl
Thera
(Santorini) island about 200 miles northeast of Crete. Place of volcanic eruption around the year 1600 b.c.
Oikoumene (oi-koo-men-nay)
Commonwealth
Minoan Culture Timline
- 1900 - 1700 BC: Palatial culture prospers
- 1700 BC: Palaces destroyed and rebuilt
- 1700-1450 BC: Second period of palatial prosperity
- 1450 BC: Second destruction of palaces (only Knossos survived)
