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Name the four famous frescoes at Knossos.

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La Parisienne, The Prince of Lilies, the Dolphin fresco, Toreador fresco

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Who excavated Knossos in 1900?

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Sir Arthur Evans

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Name the three famous frescoes at Thera.

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Boxing Children, Blue Monkeys, Fisherman

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Name the three famous Minoan vases.

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Harvester vase, Octopus case, Bull’s Head rhyton

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What American archaeologist excavated Pylos?

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Carl Blegen

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Who discovered the “Mask of Agamemnon?”

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Heinrich Schliemann

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Who deciphered Linear B tablets? Has Linear A been deciphered yet?

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Michael Ventris, no

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Give the dates of the Protogeometric period

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1000-900 B.C.

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Give the dates of the Greek Geometric period

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900-700 B.C.

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Give the dates of the Greek Orientalizing period

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700-600 B.C.

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Give the dates of the Greek Archaic period.

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600-480 B.C.

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Give the dates of the Greek Early Classical period.

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480-450 B.C

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Give the dates of the Greek High Classical period.

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450-400 B.C.

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Give the dates of the Greek Late Classical period.

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400-323 B.C.

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Give the dates for the Greek Hellenistic period.

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323-31 B.C.

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Give the dates for the Etruscan Villanovan period.

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900-700 B.C.

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Give the dates for the Etruscan Orientalizing period.

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700-600 B.C.

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Give the dates for the Etruscan Archaic Period.

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600-480 B.C.

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Give the dates for the Etruscan Classical period.

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480-323 B.C.

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Give the dates for the Etruscan Hellenistic period.

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323-89 B.C.

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Give the dates of the Roman monarchy.

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753-509 B.C.

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Give the dates of the Roman Republic.

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509-27 B.C.

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Give the dates for the Early Roman Empire.

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27 B.C.- A.D. 96

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Give the dates for the High Roman Empire.

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A.D. 96-192

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Give the dates for the Late Roman Empire.
A.D. 192-337
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Who was the master of the black figure technique?
Exekias
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Who is the master of red figure technique?
Euphonios
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Where was black figure developed?
Corinth
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Where was red figure developed?
Athens
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What is an amphora?
A two-handled vase used for storage and transport
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What is a Krater?
A vase used for mixing wine with water.
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What are Kylix and Kantharos?
Drinking cups
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What is a lekythos?
A vase used for oils and perfumes, and for pouring funeral libations.
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What does the North side of the Parthenon show?
The Trojan War
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What does the East side of the Parthenon show?
Gigantomachy
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What does the South side of the Parthenon show?
Lapiths and Centaurs
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What does the West side of the Parthenon show?
Amazonomachy
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What does the inner frieze of the Parthenon depict?
It is 500 ft of the Panathenaic Procession. Done in low relief.
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What is the term for the encircling colonnade in a Greek temple?
Peristyle
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What is the room in which the statue of a god was kept in (in a Greek temple)?
Naos
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What is the name of the room in which a statue of god was kept in (in a Roman temple)?
Cella
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What was the porch of a Greek temple called?
Pronaos
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What type of column "order" consisted of a plain capital, triglyphs, and metopes?
The Doric order
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What type of column "order" consisted of volume capitals, and a base at the bottom of a shaft?
The ionic order
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What are the three areas on a Greek temple that "invited" sculpted decoration?
1) the pediment 2) the metopes on Doric temples 3) the continuous frieze on Ionic temples
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What is the subject of the pediment of the temple of Artemis?
The Gorgon, Medusa, running away from Perseus. She is flanked by crouching panthers and her two children: Pagasos on the left, and Chrysaor on the right.
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What is the subject of the metopes on the temple of Zeus at Olympia?
The twelve labors of Herakles
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What was the use of transporting olive oils and wines?
Amphora
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What was used to carry water?
A hydria
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What was a Krater?
A wide-mouthed mixing bowl.
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What was the purpose of an oinochoe?
A jug that was dipped into a Krater to pour diluted wine into a Kylix.
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What is a Kylix?
A delicate drinking cup
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What was a skyphos?
A humble drinking mug
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What was the name of a small flask that women used to store perfumes?
An alabastron
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What is an aryballos?
A small, round vessel used to store olive oil for men to cover themselves in after exercising
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What was the purpose of a loutrophoros?
To carry the water for a bride's ritual bath before her wedding
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Where is the Augustus of Primaporta displayed?
Vatican Museum
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Where is the Doryphoros displayed?
The Naples National Archaeological Museum
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Where is the Apoxyomenos displayed?
Pio-Clementino Museum
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Where is the Discobolus displayed?
The British Mueseum
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Where is the Nike of Samothrace displayed?
The Louvre
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Where is the Francois Vase displayed?
Florence Archaeological Musueum
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Where is the Harvester Vase displayed?
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
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Who commissioned the Domus Aurea?
Nero
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Who commissioned the Circus Maximus?
Trajan
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Who commissioned the Ara Pacis?
Augustus
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Who commissioned the Forum Caesaris?
Julius Caesar
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Who commissioned the Arch of Titus?
Domitian (his brother)
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Who found the Riace Bronzes?
Stefano Mariottini
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What is a psykter?
A pot that acts as a wine cooler
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Who found the tomb of Phillip II?
Manolis Andonikos
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What is Apelles best known for?
His paintings and his mosaic of Alexander the Great.
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Who designed Trajan's Forum?
Apollodorus of Damascus
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What two sculptures is Agesander of Rhodes best known for?
Laocoon and His Sons & | Blinding of Polyphemus
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Who created the Kanon, the most well used set of proportions in Classical sculpture?
Polyclitus
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Who sculpted the metopes on the Parthenon?
Phidias
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What is displayed on the west pediment?
The competition between Athena and Poseidon
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Who were the architects of the Parthenon?
Ictinus and Callicrates
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Where are the Elgin Marbles displayed?
The British Museum
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What was the first life-sized nude sculpture of a women?
Aphrodite of Cnidos
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Lysippus was the personal sculptor?
Alexander the Great
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What type of temple is the Temple of Hera at Olympia?
Doric
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The Doric temple of Zeus is found where?
Olympia
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The temple of Athena Nike at the acropolis is what type of temple?
Ionic
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The Doric-style Propelaea is at the entrance if where?
The Athenian Acropolis
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The Erectheum on the acropolis was created by whom?
Mnesicles
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The temple of Athena Nike was created by whom?
Callicrates
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The temple of Olympian Zeus is an example of what style of temple?
Corinthian
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What is the main characteristic of a monopteros temple?
It is completely circular
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The temple of vesta is a monopteros temple found where?
The imperial forum
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The temple of Hercules Victor is a monopteros temple found where?
The Forum Boarium near the Tiber

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