Regionals Study Guide Flashcards
Name the four famous frescoes at Knossos.
La Parisienne, The Prince of Lilies, the Dolphin fresco, Toreador fresco
Who excavated Knossos in 1900?
Sir Arthur Evans
Name the three famous frescoes at Thera.
Boxing Children, Blue Monkeys, Fisherman
Name the three famous Minoan vases.
Harvester vase, Octopus case, Bull’s Head rhyton
What American archaeologist excavated Pylos?
Carl Blegen
Who discovered the “Mask of Agamemnon?”
Heinrich Schliemann
Who deciphered Linear B tablets? Has Linear A been deciphered yet?
Michael Ventris, no
Give the dates of the Protogeometric period
1000-900 B.C.
Give the dates of the Greek Geometric period
900-700 B.C.
Give the dates of the Greek Orientalizing period
700-600 B.C.
Give the dates of the Greek Archaic period.
600-480 B.C.
Give the dates of the Greek Early Classical period.
480-450 B.C
Give the dates of the Greek High Classical period.
450-400 B.C.
Give the dates of the Greek Late Classical period.
400-323 B.C.
Give the dates for the Greek Hellenistic period.
323-31 B.C.
Give the dates for the Etruscan Villanovan period.
900-700 B.C.
Give the dates for the Etruscan Orientalizing period.
700-600 B.C.
Give the dates for the Etruscan Archaic Period.
600-480 B.C.
Give the dates for the Etruscan Classical period.
480-323 B.C.
Give the dates for the Etruscan Hellenistic period.
323-89 B.C.
Give the dates of the Roman monarchy.
753-509 B.C.
Give the dates of the Roman Republic.
509-27 B.C.
Give the dates for the Early Roman Empire.
27 B.C.- A.D. 96
Give the dates for the High Roman Empire.
A.D. 96-192
Give the dates for the Late Roman Empire.
A.D. 192-337
Who was the master of the black figure technique?
Exekias
Who is the master of red figure technique?
Euphonios
Where was black figure developed?
Corinth
Where was red figure developed?
Athens
What is an amphora?
A two-handled vase used for storage and transport
What is a Krater?
A vase used for mixing wine with water.
What are Kylix and Kantharos?
Drinking cups
What is a lekythos?
A vase used for oils and perfumes, and for pouring funeral libations.
What does the North side of the Parthenon show?
The Trojan War
What does the East side of the Parthenon show?
Gigantomachy
What does the South side of the Parthenon show?
Lapiths and Centaurs
What does the West side of the Parthenon show?
Amazonomachy
What does the inner frieze of the Parthenon depict?
It is 500 ft of the Panathenaic Procession. Done in low relief.
What is the term for the encircling colonnade in a Greek temple?
Peristyle
What is the room in which the statue of a god was kept in (in a Greek temple)?
Naos
What is the name of the room in which a statue of god was kept in (in a Roman temple)?
Cella
What was the porch of a Greek temple called?
Pronaos
What type of column “order” consisted of a plain capital, triglyphs, and metopes?
The Doric order
What type of column “order” consisted of volume capitals, and a base at the bottom of a shaft?
The ionic order
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
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.
What is the subject of the metopes on the temple of Zeus at Olympia?
The twelve labors of Herakles
What was the use of transporting olive oils and wines?
Amphora
What was used to carry water?
A hydria
What was a Krater?
A wide-mouthed mixing bowl.
What was the purpose of an oinochoe?
A jug that was dipped into a Krater to pour diluted wine into a Kylix.
What is a Kylix?
A delicate drinking cup
What was a skyphos?
A humble drinking mug
What was the name of a small flask that women used to store perfumes?
An alabastron
What is an aryballos?
A small, round vessel used to store olive oil for men to cover themselves in after exercising
What was the purpose of a loutrophoros?
To carry the water for a bride’s ritual bath before her wedding
Where is the Augustus of Primaporta displayed?
Vatican Museum
Where is the Doryphoros displayed?
The Naples National Archaeological Museum
Where is the Apoxyomenos displayed?
Pio-Clementino Museum
Where is the Discobolus displayed?
The British Mueseum
Where is the Nike of Samothrace displayed?
The Louvre
Where is the Francois Vase displayed?
Florence Archaeological Musueum
Where is the Harvester Vase displayed?
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Who commissioned the Domus Aurea?
Nero
Who commissioned the Circus Maximus?
Trajan
Who commissioned the Ara Pacis?
Augustus
Who commissioned the Forum Caesaris?
Julius Caesar
Who commissioned the Arch of Titus?
Domitian (his brother)
Who found the Riace Bronzes?
Stefano Mariottini
What is a psykter?
A pot that acts as a wine cooler
Who found the tomb of Phillip II?
Manolis Andonikos
What is Apelles best known for?
His paintings and his mosaic of Alexander the Great.
Who designed Trajan’s Forum?
Apollodorus of Damascus
What two sculptures is Agesander of Rhodes best known for?
Laocoon and His Sons &
Blinding of Polyphemus
Who created the Kanon, the most well used set of proportions in Classical sculpture?
Polyclitus
Who sculpted the metopes on the Parthenon?
Phidias
What is displayed on the west pediment?
The competition between Athena and Poseidon
Who were the architects of the Parthenon?
Ictinus and Callicrates
Where are the Elgin Marbles displayed?
The British Museum
What was the first life-sized nude sculpture of a women?
Aphrodite of Cnidos
Lysippus was the personal sculptor?
Alexander the Great
What type of temple is the Temple of Hera at Olympia?
Doric
The Doric temple of Zeus is found where?
Olympia
The temple of Athena Nike at the acropolis is what type of temple?
Ionic
The Doric-style Propelaea is at the entrance if where?
The Athenian Acropolis
The Erectheum on the acropolis was created by whom?
Mnesicles
The temple of Athena Nike was created by whom?
Callicrates
The temple of Olympian Zeus is an example of what style of temple?
Corinthian
What is the main characteristic of a monopteros temple?
It is completely circular
The temple of vesta is a monopteros temple found where?
The imperial forum
The temple of Hercules Victor is a monopteros temple found where?
The Forum Boarium near the Tiber
