Module 3 Flashcards
What is horror vacui?
“fear of emptiness” which is a technique whereby
every available space is filled with decoration
What is composite view?
Using multiple view points for clarity (i.e. for the
viewer to understand the scene) rather than for reality.
What is prothesis?
“Laying out” a sequence of the Greek funeral for visitors
to see the dead
What is an apoikia?
“away home” or a colony established by the Greeks
outside of the mainland
What is an emporian?
Trading post established by the Greeks
What is a sphyrelaton?
Near eastern technique of hammering metal sheets
over a wooden core
What is apotropaic?
“turn away” ward off evil
What is a synoptic narrative?
A way of representing the whole story in one
scene
“Heroon” at Lefkandi, Euboia
Dark Age/Iron Age (c. 950 BCE)
Typical Dark Age building technique but
largest of time period
Two burials inside
Ruler’s House? Feasting Hall? Shrine?
Sanctuary of Apollo Daphnephoros at
Eretria (Euboia)
Geometric/ Dark Age (c. 850-700 BCE)
Early example of/transition to Greek temple
Apsidal structures
Dipylon Amphora
Geometric (c. 750 BCE)
Kerameikos cemetery, Athens
Registers & Horror vacui
Narrative
Grave marker
Grave of the Rich Athenian Lady
Geometric (c. 850 BCE)
Areopagus, Athens
Elite cremation burial
Grave goods including
belly amphora & pyxis with
5 granaries
Cult Statues From
Sanctuary of Apollo,
Dreros (Crete)
Seventh Century (c. 700 BCE)
Sphyrelaton
Geometric/Daidalic style
Apollo, Artemis, Leto?
Temple A at Prinias
Seventh Century (c. 625-600 BCE)
Prinias, Crete
1stStone Architectural Sculpture!
Daidalic style
NE influence
For Artemis?
Typical Cretan architecture
Nikandre Kore
From Delos
c. 640 BCE
Plank-like (mimic xoana?)
Oldest life-size Greek marble statue
Daidalic style
Inscription
