Module 4

Question 1

What is an asty?

Answer 1

urban part or city of the polis

Question 2

What is a chora?

Answer 2

the hinterland or countryside of a polis

Question 3

What is a polis?

Answer 3

“city-state”; an organized settlement with a form of government, consisting of a citizen body

Question 4

What is a caryatid?

Answer 4

Sculpted female functioning as a columnar support either for structural or decorative purpose

Question 5

What is connoisseurship?

Answer 5

expert opinion attributing vases to individuals based on small details and trends

Question 6

What is a bilingual vase?

Answer 6

A style of painting on Attic vases which presents the same scene on both sides, but uses Black-Figure on one and Red-Figure on the other. Present for a short period towards the end of the Archaic period.

Question 7

What is knielauf?

Answer 7

“knee running” way of signifying running by showing bent legs

Question 8

Francois Krater

Answer 8

*Archaic (570 BCE)
*Attic Black Figure
*Found in an Etruscan
Grave
*Lively
*Synoptic narrative
*270+ mythological
scenes
*Unity of Theme?

Question 9

Attic Black Figure Amphora with Achilles and Ajax

Answer 9

*Archaic (540 BCE)
*Found in Etruria
*by Exekias
*COMPOSITON
*Masterpiece: Unity of Theme,
Scale, & Action

Question 10

Dionysus Cup

Answer 10

*Archaic (c. 540 BCE)
*Found in Etruria (Vulci)
*Attic Black figure By Exekias
*Change of Identity= Dionysiac
*Use of Coral Red Slip
*Wine-Dark Sea

Question 11

Attic Black-Figure Amphora with Dionysus & Maenads

Answer 11

*Archaic (c. 530 BCE)
*Found in Etruscan grave (Vulci)
*Amasis Painter (Egyptian?)
*Enlarged, balanced figures
*Precise Incision
*Attributes

Question 12

Euphronios Kalyx Krater

Answer 12

*Archaic (510 BCE)
*Attic Red-figure
*Elaborate floral frame
*Death of Sarpedon
*Labels
*Euphronios’ style (overlapping
figures, negative space, dilute
glaze, pattern, etc.)

Question 13

Attic Red Figure Amphora with
Athena & Herakles

Answer 13

*Late Archaic (c. 490 BCE)
*Berlin Painter
*No registers
*Single figure or group in center
–Spotlight effect
*Composition
*Narrative: Drinking/libation

Question 14

Temple of Hera, Olympia

Answer 14

*Archaic (590 BCE)
*Olympia, Sanctuary of Zeus
*Oldest Canonical Doric temple
*Woodàstone columns
*Angle Contraction

Question 15

Temple of Artemis, Corfu*Archaic (590-580 BCE)

Answer 15

*Corfu
*All stone Doric temple
*High relief sculpture but no
unity in narrative, scale, action
*Medusa, Perseus, & Pegasus

Question 16

Temple of Artemis, Ephesus

Answer 16

*Archaic (c. 560 BCE)
*Huge Ionic temple
*Croesus’ Temple (inscription)
*Elaborate Decoration
*Anatolian Fertility Artemis

Question 17

Siphnian Treasury, Delphi

Answer 17

*Archaic (525 BCE)
*Delphi
*1stIonic on Mainland
*Highly Ornate
*Lively design