The earliest Greek style known only from pottery and small-scale sculpture, characterized by meander patterns.
What is Geometric style?
100
During the Archaic period, the Greeks learned from these people how to carve blocks of stone while adapting the technique to suit their own taste.
Who are the Egyptians?
100
The elevated rock in Athens which supports several temple precincts and other buildings
What is the Acropolis?
100
The design of this theater is famous for its acoustics which are based on scientific knowledge of how sound travels.
What is the Greek Theater?
100
This term refers to the spread of the Greek culture beyond Greece, especially to the East, as a result of Alexander the Great's conquest
What is Hellenistic?
200
This style's shapes have become larger and more curvilinear than those of the Geometric style, and the Geometric patterns are relegated to borders of the main image.
What is orientalizing style?
200
The early classical development for large scale sculptures was the change from marble to this new material.
What is bronze?
200
The temple that is incomparable in its classical balance, proportion, and unity that celebrates Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
200
The work which allowed the female to enter the canon of beauty in Greek art, which previously had been restricted to the male nude.
What is Praxiteles' statue of the "Aphrodite of Knidos?"
200
He has a broken nose and teeth as well as cauliflower ears that have suffered from years of beating.
Who is the bronze Boxer?
300
Greek vases were made of this.
What is terra-cotta?
300
Archaic sculptures of standing women
What is korai?
300
The two Orders of Greek architecture.
What are Doric and Ionic orders?
300
The auditorium of the Greek Theater was built around this place for dancing.
What is the orchestra?
300
The Hellenistic taste for emotion, energetic movement and exaggerated musculature is expressed in this relief sculpture.
What is the Great Altar of Zeus?
400
The best preserved example of large scale Greek pictorial style from the Hellenistic period.
What are mosaics?
400
The pose that refers to the shift of the torso and the right hip and a lowered shoulder.
What is contrapposto?
400
The Corinthian capital is most easily distinguished by this design.
What is the acanthus leaf design?
400
A marble sculpture of men and a snake which abandons symmetry and Classical restraint.
What is Laocoon and His Two Sons?
400
The official royal image of Alexander the Great was established by this artist.
Who is Lysippos of Sikyon?
500
The amphora showing Achilles and Ajax playing a board game is a good example of this painting technique.
What is black-figure?
500
This artist's work is still thought of as the embodiment of classical style. Most of his sculpture was cast in bronze and is known today only through Roman copies in marble.
Who is Polykleitos of Argos?
500
The best surviving sculpture from the Nike temple that is titled "Nike adjusting her Sandal" is this kind of sculpture.
What is sculpture in relief?
500
The gentle S-shape of the Aphrodite of Knidos is sometimes called this.
What is the Praxitelean Curve?
500
The sculpture in which a god is depicted as a naturalistic toddler with baby fat and child-like proportions