Architecture
Sculptures
Diverse questions
Greek God
100
True or False: The Doric Order of Greek architecture belongs to Archaic style (c. 600-480 B.C.).
True
100
Monumental sculpture of human figures first appears in Greece during which period?
Archaic
100
Which Greek philosopher developed a new method of teaching known as Socratic dialogue - a process of question and answer through which the truth of an argument is elicited from the student.
Plato
100
"King" of the gods?
Zeus
200
Which Order of Greek architecture belonged to Hellenistic style?
Corinthian
200
Monumental sculpture of human figures first appears in Greece during which period?
Nudity
200
The Hellenistic Period extended from the death of whom?
Alexander the Great
200
God of love and beauty?
Aphrodite
300
Name three main Orders of Greek architecture in chronological order.
Doric, Ionic, Corinthian.
300
Hellenistic sculptors explored the nature of childhood. In one of the most famous sculpture god is depicted as a naturalistic toddler with baby fat and childlike proportions. How does that sculpture called?
Sleeping Eros
300
Greek theater grew out of rituals of the wine god...?
Dionysos
300
One of the temples in Acropolis was build to "protector of Athens", whom?
Athena
400
Athena was honored as the goddess of victory in the small marble Ionic temple of Athena Nike, which crowns the southern edge of the Acropolis. To which architecture style this temple reflects?
Classical
400
In which period was developed the widespread change from marble to bronze for large-scale sculpture.
Early Classical
400
How does the earliest Greek style called?
Geometric (It is known only from pottery and small-scale sculpture).
400
Sea and earthquakes god?
Poseidon
500
What is name of temple designed by the architects Iktinos and Kallikrates? This temple was built to Athena. This temple celebrates Athena in her aspect as a virgin goddess.
The Parthenon (Parthenos is Greek for "virgin")
500
The leading Athenian sculptor of the Late Classical style was Praxiteles.How does his most famous statue called?
Aphrodite of Knidos
500
Plan of the Acropolis includes only the four Classical buildings that were rebuilt after the destruction of the Acropolis at the end of the Persian Wars. Name those four buildings.
Parthenon, Erechitheum, Propylea, Temple of Athena Nike.
500
The outstretched wings and swirling clothes of .... from Samothrace evoke the pressure of the wind as she descends from the heavens on the prow of a ship to commemorate a naval victory. Which god is illustrated in the sculpture?
Nike
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