Early Classical
The group of city states led by Athens
What is the Delian League
A relaxed and natural stance used in sculptures
What is Contrapposto?
This temple has two columnar elements
What are Doric and ionic?
The classical period ended with the death of this historical figure.
who is Alexander the great?
The most well known sculpture of the early classical period
What is the Kritios boy
The form of asymmetrical balance used in the Doryphoros, or "Spear Bearer".
What is Chiastic?
The Parthenon represents the birth of a system of government
What is democracy?
The two major sculptors of late classical Greece
Who are Praxiteles and Lysippos?
The Canon of proportions was created by this historical sculptor
Who is Polykleitos
Features in the Disc Thrower were __, __, & __, and were a celebration of human achievement
What are unemotion, movement, & idealization?
The goddess Athena, patron goddess of Athens was the god of __ & __
What is wisdom and war?
This sculpture inspires a new standard for smooth, elongated, and curved posing, as well as skilled and realistic textures of flesh, fabric, and hair.
What is Hermes and the infant Dionysus
The conflicts that led to the early classical period
What are the Persian wars
The civil wars between Sparta and Athens
What are the Peloponnesian wars?
The feature that held sculptures that lined the outside of the temple
What are Metopes?
This sculpture created a new canon of proportions, and spirals around the vertical axis, causing the viewer to want to see the sculpture from all sides
What is Apoxomenos, "the scraper"?
The main ideals of perfection of the early classical period were __, __, & __
what are order, reason, and balance?
The historical figure and leader of Athens that commissioned the building of the Parthenon
Who is Pericles?
What is Entasis?
This sculpture was created to attract tourism, had many copies, and was the first nude depiction of a specific character.
What is Aphrodite of Knidos?