Mythology
History & Context
Sculpture
Architecture
Painting
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The wife and sister of Zeus; goddess of marriage
Hera (Juno)
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What's the time frame for Ancient Greece?
Approximately 700-480 BCE
100
Old Woman displays what characteristic of Hellenistic art?
Realism
100
What order are the columns of the Temple of Hera?
Doric
100
During which period did figure painting return to Greek art?
Geometric Period
200
The god of wine and the son of Zeus and a mortal woman.
Dionysos
200
Ancient Greece was composed of several of these political entities.
City-states
200
Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) was made by this artist who sought to use mathematics and proportions order to create a perfect figure.
Polykleitos
200
On the West pediment of the Temple of Artemis, what do Medusa and the two panthers serve as?
Temple guardians
200
What is the name of this piece?
Battle of Issus
300
How were Greek gods different from deities of Mesopotamia and Egypt?
The only difference between gods and humans were the immortality of the gods: Greeks had a humanistic worldview.
300
What are the three sectors of the pre-historic Aegean?
Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean.
300
Which art period is also known as the Golden Age of Greece, and what revolutionary style was introduced?
Classical; contrapposto
300
Name three landmarks in the Athenian Acropolis.
1) Parthenon, 2) Temple of Athena Nike, 3) Propylaia and 4) Erechtheion.
300
What technique does Euthymides use here to show a three-quarter view of each figure?
Foreshortening
400
What did Kronos/Cronos do to his children? Who stopped him and how?
He ate 5/6 of his children, and only stopped when Rhea tricked him into eating a rock instead of baby Zeus, allowing for them to be rescued.
400
What year did democracy emerge? Where?
500 BCE, Athens
400
What does the golden statue of Athena in the Parthenon represent?
Victory of Athens over Persia.
400
The ionic frieze of which structure represents the Panathenaic Festival procession that took place every four years in Athens?
Parthenon
400
Where was this fresco located, and what's the style?
Palace of Knossos; Minoan
500
Son of Apollo and a mortal woman. Was the healing god who's serpent-entwined staff is the emblem of modern medicine.
Asklepios (Aesculapius)
500
Between which two deaths did the Hellenistic Age extend?
Alexander the Great and Cleopatra
500
What is the story behind Lacoon and his sons?
The gods sent serpents to punish Lacoon for warning Troy about the danger of bringing the Greek's wood horse within the walls of their city.
500
Square slabs like the Centauromachy, on the friezes of the Parthenon, are called __________.
Metopes
500
What technique does Exekias use here, and where did he place his signature (common on Greek vases?)
Black-figure painting; amphora