Module 5

Question 1

What is a Kouros (pl. Kouroi)?

Answer 1

Male youth; sculpture type of young nude
male
popular from 7th century B.C. to Archaic period

Question 2

What is a Kore (pl. Korai)?

Answer 2

Maiden; sculpture type of young clothed
female popular from 7th century B.C. to Archaic period

Question 3

What are the Persian Wars?

Answer 3

two series of battles (490 BCE & 480/479 BCE)
of allied Greek forces against the Persians led by Darius &
Xerxes and ultimately won by the Greeks

Question 4

Sounion Kouros

Answer 4

*Archaic (c. 590 BCE)
*Colossal
*Stiff & Square
*Patterned & Daidalic Style
*Heroic Nudity
*Conceptual Ideal

Question 5

Anavysos Kouros

Answer 5

*Archaic (530 BCE)
*For youth, Kroisos
(inscription)
*More Naturalistic
*Archaic smile but still
typical form of a kouros

Question 6

Kritios Boy

Answer 6

*Late Archaic/Early Classical
(c. 480 BCE)
*Votive, Athenian Acropolis
*Under life-size
*Last of Kouroi
*New Pose (contrapposto?)
*More naturalistic & engaged

Question 7

Berlin Kore

Answer 7

*Archaic (c. 570 BCE)
*grave marker from Attica
*frontal, stiff
*body column-like
*rigid patterning

Question 8

Phrasikleia Kore

Answer 8

*Archaic (540 BCE)
*From Attica
*Grave Monument with Inscription
*Daidalic
*Paint & Pattern