Midterm Flashcards
Two important painting locations in the Neolithic time
Lascaux
Alta Mira
What didn’t the Venus figures have
Faces
Medium of bull heads with lyre
Gold and lapis lazuli
What dynasty were the pyramids of Giza in
4th dynasty
Who found the tomb of Tutankhamen
Howard carter
Where is the pyramid of djoser located
Saqqara
Egyptian symbol of eternal life
The ankh
What is Faience
Glass paste
Man who deciphered hieroglyphs
Champollion
Greek vessel for libations and ceremonies
Leakythos
Sculpture of discobulos
Myron
Why is Delphi important
Because of the oracle
Where are the Minoans identified with
Crete
Parthenon column “swelling”
Entasis
Athenians Ionian or Doric
Ionian
Doric temple
Pantheon
Where is the porch of caryatids on Acropolis
Erechtheum
Man who found Mycenae
Heinrich Schliemann
Main room of a temple
Cella or naos
Wars of diadochi also called
War of successors
What time period if the dying Gaul from
Hellenistic
Author of Hecuba
Euripides
First major playwright
Aeschylus
Where is the Nike of samothrace located
The louvre
Where does Greek theater come from
Religious festivals
Father of logic
Socrates
Who were the Peloponnesian wars against
Athens vs. Sparta
What did Virgil write
The Aeneid
Man that bequeathed city to Rome
Attalus III
Who won the battle of actium and where was it off the coast of
Augustus
Greece
Date of fall of Rome
476
2nd capital of the Roman empires
Constantinople
Coherent group of portraiture using encaustic
Faium
When was the edict of Milan
313
Era of good emperors
Nerva-Antonines
Two examples of continuous narration
Palette of Narmer
Trajans column
What does the basilica Ulpia remind us of
Hypostyle hall
Purpose of Byzantine art is what
Secular
Gestures > ___________
Dramatic movement
What did the council of church of Ephesus decide
Who Mary was
What’s Mary’s other name
Theotokos
What else is the virgin of compassion called
Virgin of vladimere
Most important part of civilization in the Neolithic revolution
Surplus food
