Ancient Greece

1. Where did the Dorians live? Where did the Ionians live? The Corinthians?

2. Who were the main enemies in the Peloponnesian Wars?

3. What is a polis?

4. What is an Olympiad? What are the Olympics?

5. What are our three main sources of information on the Greek civilization?

6. When were the Greek "Dark Ages"? Why was it called this?

7. What were the finctions of the following: hydria, lekythos, krater, amphora, kylix, oenocho

8. Be able to discuss stylistically an example of Geometric pottery

9. Be able to discuss stylistically an example of Greek pottery in the Orientalizing style

10. Be able to discuss stylistically an example of Black-figure pottery

11. Be able to discuss stylistically an example of Red- Figure pottery

12. Be able to discuss stylistically an example of White-Figure Ground pottery

13. Be able to identify Zeus, Apollo, Hera, Heracles, Hades, the Cyclops, the Centaurs, Aphrodite, Prometheus, Athena, Artemis, Ares, Hermes, Persephone, Demeter, Dionysos, Eros, Achilles, Ajax, the Satyrs, the Nymphs, the Gorgons, the Amazons and the Titans.

14. What differentiated Corinthian pottery from other contermporary examples?

15. What are the differences between Black-Figure and Red- Figure pottery, technique as well as style.

16. Describe the psychological aspects of the Black-figure work of "Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game".

17. What is the "Bilingual Style" refer to?

18. What is the story behind the depiction of "Dionysos in a Boat" in the kylix by Exekias? Why would this be an event significant to the Greeks?

19. What are the overly-crowded compositions and disjointed assembly of forms in the late red-figure style attributed to?

20. Discuss the technique for creating the ancient Greek pebble mosaics.

21. What is a kouros? What is a kore?

22. Discuss some of the latent near-Eastern influences visible in archaic Greek sculpture.

23. What was the purpose of the Kore and Kouros figures?

24. What was the Greek conception of the afterlife like? How was it different from other cultures?

25. Why would a kore figure be smaller than a kouros figure?

26. Were archaic sculptures painted? why or why not?

27. Identify some conventions of archaic Greek sculpture that are different from their Egyptian counterparts.

28. Discuss stylistically this (artwork x) archaic kore or kouros figure.

29. What was the relationship between the potter and painter of ancient Greek pottery?

30. What is the significance of the figure of the "calf-bearer" in archaic Greek sculpture?

31. Identify the traits and underlying purposes of the "archaic smile".

32. What is the function of the sculpture of the central portion of the west pediment of the Temple of Artemis at Corfu? Where have we seen this before? (i.e. what is its stylistic ancestor?)

33. Where was the majority of Greek sculpture confined to in their achitecture?

34. What was the stylistic goal of the relief carving of the Battle of Gods and Giants at the Treasury of the Siphnians?

35. What is "pathos" ?

36. Discuss the stylistic significance of the figure of the Critios Boy.

37. Identify contrapposto, engaged leg, free leg.

38. What are some of the attributes of the "severe style" as seen in (artwork x)?

39. Describe the "lost wax" bronze casting technique. (visit this link: http://users.lanminds.com/~drewid/Lost_Wax_Casting.html

40. What is the sense of energy depicted by both the bronze Riacce Warriors and the bronze statue of Zeus/Poseidon?

41. What is the sense of energy put forth by Myron's "Discus Thrower"?

42. Discuss stylistically the images of the "Lapiths and Centaurs" from between the metopes at the Parthenon.

43. What are the stylistic attributes of the Greek sculptor Polyclitus? Praxiteles?

44. What is the "wet-drapery" technique? Give an example.

45. What does the term "idealized" refer to in classical Greek sculpture.

46. Be able to identify the differences between archaic, classical and hellenistic Greek sculpture.

47. What is a trait of the sculptor Scopas?

48. Name three of the 7 wonders of the ancient world we have looked at in this class.

49. What are some differences of portrait sculpture we have seen in the transition from classicism to Hellenism, as seen in (artwork x - like the portrait of Socrates by Lyssipus).

50. Discuss stylistically Epigonos of Pergamum's "Dying Trumpeteer".

51. Discuss the traits of classicism as seen in (artwork x).

52. Discuss the traits of Hellenism as seen in (artwork x).

53. Discuss some of the stylistic traits of Greek coinage.

54. What are the three orders of Greek architecture? Discuss the similarities and differences of each one.

55. What three sources did the builders of the first Doric temples draw from?

56. What are the main differences between the Basilica and Temple of Poseidon at Paestum?

57. What is entasis? echinus?

58. What and where is the Acropolis?

59. Discuss stylistically the Temple of (artwork x) and identify its order

60. Know the various parts of the Greek temple and their function, (page 111, Janson V.6, page 126 V. 5)

61. The Parthenon was a temple dedicated to:

62. What were some of the adjustments made to the Parhtenon to give it the appearance of perfection and human-friendly harmony?

63. What does the term "isocephalic" mean?

64. Who created the statue within the Pathenon? (name of sculptor)

65. Why was the building of the Propylaea put on hold?

66. What was a pinakotheke?

67. Discuss the stylistic conventions of the Temple of Athena Nike.

68. How was the Propylaea adapted to the terrain of the Acropolis?

69. What is one source for Ionic and Corinthian columns? (stylistic ancestor)

70. Discuss stylistically the caryatid figures from the porch of the maidens.

71. What was the function of the Theater at Epidaurus? How do we incorporate its ideas into modern designs?

72. Discuss the carving style of the frieze figures from the Pergamum Altar (Altar of Zeus)