The Bronze Age
Iron to Archaic
Panhellenism
Classical
Hellenistic
100
In both Minoan and Mycenaean culture, ritual life centered around elaborate monumental structures described with this modern term.
What is a palace?
100
The Greek term used to describe a statue of a young woman, often featuring elaborate drapery and jewelry.
What is a kore?
100
A common "stock scene" in Greek art, this type of imagery frequently appears on panhellenic temples and depicts possibly the worst wedding reception ever.
What is a centauromachy?
100
Classical art generally is renowned for the development of this method of representing the world, particularly in the treatment of the human body.
What is naturalism?
100
Hellenistic sculpture is renowned for the over-the top nature of its interest in emotion and drama, often referred to with this term.
What is baroque?
200
Round stone tombs of this type were popular in Mycenaean Greece, often including the burial of multiple members of the same family or clan.
What is a tholos tomb?
200
This type of architecture, often found in temples, emerged during the 6th century BCE.
What is Doric?
200
This term describes the existence of a shared culture (religion, language, mythology, and customs) that extended outside into colonized areas of the Mediterranean.
What is panhellenism?
200
The "Porch of the Maidens" features a famous set of female caryatids and formed part of the south side of this Athenian building.
What is the Erechtheion?
200
This massive structure stood on the top of a Hellenistic acropolis and featured a massive gigantomachy frieze on its exterior.
What is the Pergamon Altar?
300
This large monumental structure incorporated impressive stonemasonry, major engineering achievements, and new sculptural techniques to enclose its city.
What is the Lion's Gate of Mycenae?
300
This Iron Age structure contained an important pair of burials featuring objects imported from around the Mediterranean.
What is Lefkandi?
300
One of the four panhellenic sanctuaries, this site's founding hero was Ophialtes, a baby who died after a snakebite.
What is Nemea?
300
The growing popularity of theater and the rise of a professional class of scene painters probably informed major changes in this type of Classical vase painting.
What is red figure?
300
This term described the expansion of the Greek 'homeland' in the wake of Alexander's conquests, which had many cultural and artistic implications.
What is oikoumene?
400
Pots painted in this Minoan style often incorporate sea animals and plants painted in a flowing, naturalistic style.
What is the Marine style?
400
This style of painting pottery allowed for more complex narratives, including the introduction of complex mythological scenes, and often involved the adding of white and red.
What is black figure?
400
This chryselephantine statue, sculpted by the famous Phidias, depicted its male subject seated.
What is the statue of Zeus from Olympia?
400
This highly unusual Doric temple in the middle of Arkadia featured the first example of a Corinthian column.
What is the Temple of Apollo at Bassai?
400
The rise of this type of sculpture in the Hellenistic period suggested both the rise of aristocracies in cities and the growing importance of the individual in Greek culture.
What is portraiture?
500
This important island site was destroyed in an earthquake and preserves a wealth of Minoan-style wall painting, making it an ideal place to consider how Minoan culture expanded through the Aegean world.
What is Akrotiri?
500
This early Doric temple was renowned for its wooden columns and was originally shared between two married deities.
What is the temple of Hera at Olympia?
500
This sanctuary was built into a cliffside and may have exploited a natural hallucinogenic gas to support its ritual activities.
What is the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi?
500
Before the Classical period, these performance spaces were usually open-air hillsides with little actual architecture.
What is a theater?
500
Houses from this Hellenistic island city, often referred to as an example of a cosmopolis, often featured elaborate mosaic floors.
What is Delos?