Pottery
This vessel was used to carry water back and forth from a fountain to one's home.
What is a hydria?
This is the room where the cult statue in a temple would be placed.
What is the naos or the cella?
This Bronze Age sculpture appears to be made of faience: she holds two snakes with a cat on her head.
What is the Minoan snake goddess?
A type of colorful wall painting, using pigments and plaster, can be dry or wet.
What is fresco?
This city was dedicated to the god Athena, who battled with Poseidon for it.
This vessel was used for pouring water at the table.
What is an olpe?
This order's column capitals have an abacus and echinus.
What is the Doric order?
This sculpture, found in Mycenae, is made of pure gold and was thought depict a Bronze Age Greek ruler when it was first found.
What is the "mask of Agamemnon"?
A sculpture that contains both ivory and gold.
What is a chryselephantine sculpture?
This city was the site of a major cult site of the god Apollo: the Pythia, his priestess, was his oracle and could be consulted here.
What is Delphi?
This vessel shape designated a male cinerary burial in the Geometric period.
What is a krater?
This order has a running frieze and its columns are fluted.
What is the Ionic Order?
This standing male sculpture type imitates Egyptian sculpture and shows athletic young men in the nude with idealized features.
What is the kouros?
Discovered off the coast of Turkey, contained a wide array of metals, amphorae, and other goods that indicate widespread trade in the Late Bronze Age.
What is the Uluburun shipwreck?
This city was the site of not one, but two huge temples dedicated to the goddess Hera.
What is Poseidonia, or Paestum, Italy?
This vessel was filled with olive oil from Athena's sacred olive grove and given as a prize to competition winners.
What is the panathenaic amphora?
This building possesses an oblong shape and is near to a large burial ground in Lefkandi.
What is a heroon?
This sculptural style features triangular faces and large swathes of curled hair: it features prominently in the movie "Troy" in the temple of Apollo, and is associated with a famous sculptor of the ancient world.
What is Daedalic?
A festival held at Athens that included athletic and artistic games, for all Greeks.
What is the Panathenaic festival?
This city is connected to the myth of the Iliad, and the location of a major battle.
What is Troy?
This type of vessel is used to pour libations: this one is made from serpentine and resembles a bull's head.
What is a rhyton?
This type of complex is often built high on a mountain top and fortified with large, thick walls, both for defense.
What is an acropolis?
This sculpture is both a column and a woman: it stands at the entrance to the Siphnian treasury in Delphi.
What is a caryatid?
The gentle swelling of the horizontal and vertical building elements in Greek temples, to create visual balance.
What is Entasis?
This city is the site of a major Bronze Age "palace" connected to the myth of King Minos and the Minotaur.
What is Knossos?