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Regionals Study Guide Flashcards

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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.

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A.D. 192-337

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Who was the master of the black figure technique?

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Exekias

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Who is the master of red figure technique?

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Euphonios

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27
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Where was black figure developed?

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Corinth

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Where was red figure developed?

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Athens

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29
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What is an amphora?

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A two-handled vase used for storage and transport

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What is a Krater?

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A vase used for mixing wine with water.

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What are Kylix and Kantharos?

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Drinking cups

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What is a lekythos?

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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?

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The Trojan War

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What does the East side of the Parthenon show?

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Gigantomachy

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What does the South side of the Parthenon show?

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Lapiths and Centaurs

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What does the West side of the Parthenon show?

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Amazonomachy

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What does the inner frieze of the Parthenon depict?

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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?

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Peristyle

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What is the room in which the statue of a god was kept in (in a Greek temple)?

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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)?

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Cella

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What was the porch of a Greek temple called?

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Pronaos

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What type of column “order” consisted of a plain capital, triglyphs, and metopes?

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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?

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The ionic order

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What are the three areas on a Greek temple that “invited” sculpted decoration?

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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?

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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?

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The twelve labors of Herakles

47
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What was the use of transporting olive oils and wines?

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Amphora

48
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What was used to carry water?

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A hydria

49
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What was a Krater?

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A wide-mouthed mixing bowl.

50
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What was the purpose of an oinochoe?

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A jug that was dipped into a Krater to pour diluted wine into a Kylix.

51
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What is a Kylix?

A

A delicate drinking cup

52
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What was a skyphos?

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A humble drinking mug

53
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What was the name of a small flask that women used to store perfumes?

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An alabastron

54
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What is an aryballos?

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A small, round vessel used to store olive oil for men to cover themselves in after exercising

55
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What was the purpose of a loutrophoros?

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To carry the water for a bride’s ritual bath before her wedding

56
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Where is the Augustus of Primaporta displayed?

A

Vatican Museum

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Where is the Doryphoros displayed?

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The Naples National Archaeological Museum

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Where is the Apoxyomenos displayed?

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Pio-Clementino Museum

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Where is the Discobolus displayed?

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The British Mueseum

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Where is the Nike of Samothrace displayed?

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The Louvre

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Where is the Francois Vase displayed?

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Florence Archaeological Musueum

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Where is the Harvester Vase displayed?

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Heraklion Archaeological Museum

63
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Who commissioned the Domus Aurea?

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Nero

64
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Who commissioned the Circus Maximus?

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Trajan

65
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Who commissioned the Ara Pacis?

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Augustus

66
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Who commissioned the Forum Caesaris?

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Julius Caesar

67
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Who commissioned the Arch of Titus?

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Domitian (his brother)

68
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Who found the Riace Bronzes?

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Stefano Mariottini

69
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What is a psykter?

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A pot that acts as a wine cooler

70
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Who found the tomb of Phillip II?

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Manolis Andonikos

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What is Apelles best known for?

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His paintings and his mosaic of Alexander the Great.

72
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Who designed Trajan’s Forum?

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Apollodorus of Damascus

73
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What two sculptures is Agesander of Rhodes best known for?

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Laocoon and His Sons &

Blinding of Polyphemus

74
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Who created the Kanon, the most well used set of proportions in Classical sculpture?

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Polyclitus

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Who sculpted the metopes on the Parthenon?

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Phidias

76
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What is displayed on the west pediment?

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The competition between Athena and Poseidon

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Who were the architects of the Parthenon?

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Ictinus and Callicrates

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Where are the Elgin Marbles displayed?

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The British Museum

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What was the first life-sized nude sculpture of a women?

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Aphrodite of Cnidos

80
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Lysippus was the personal sculptor?

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Alexander the Great

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What type of temple is the Temple of Hera at Olympia?

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Doric

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The Doric temple of Zeus is found where?

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Olympia

83
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The temple of Athena Nike at the acropolis is what type of temple?

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Ionic

84
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The Doric-style Propelaea is at the entrance if where?

A

The Athenian Acropolis

85
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The Erectheum on the acropolis was created by whom?

A

Mnesicles

86
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The temple of Athena Nike was created by whom?

A

Callicrates

87
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The temple of Olympian Zeus is an example of what style of temple?

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Corinthian

88
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What is the main characteristic of a monopteros temple?

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It is completely circular

89
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The temple of vesta is a monopteros temple found where?

A

The imperial forum

90
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The temple of Hercules Victor is a monopteros temple found where?

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The Forum Boarium near the Tiber

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