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Classics 232 Set 1
Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome
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Archaeology
Undergraduate 2
10/06/2011

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Term

Time Period:

 

Roman

Definition

31 BCE

 

Battle of Actium

Term

Time Period:

 

Persian Wars

Definition

490-480 BCE

 

Term

Time Period:

 

Athenian Democracy

Definition
508/507 BCE
Term
Kleitias
Definition

570-560 BCE (peak)

 

Athenian black figure pottery painter

Term
black figure pottery
Definition

7th-5th BCE

figures were painted in black on the pot, and grooves incised to show shape, movement.  Attica prominent.

Term
Panathenic Amphora
Definition

Amphora (Jug) given to victor at panathenic games, containing sacred olive oil from grove of Athena at Akedemia


Black figure style even long after out of fasion

Narrow neck/feet, tight handles

Term

Time Period:

 

High Classical

Definition

C. 450-400 BCE


Athenian Acropolis

Phidias

Polykleitos

Hippodamos

Term

Time Period:

Archaic

Definition

C. 600 BCE


Doric & Ionic architecture

koroi & Kore

attic black figure vases, red figure

Term
Akroterion
Definition

Pl: Akroteria

statue or florette placed at corner of pediment

Term
Angle Contraction
Definition
Placing last two columns towards corner of temple closer together to trick the human eye to seeing them as normally spaced, (optical illusion)
Term
Caryatid
Definition

Sculpted Female figure used in place of a column or used to support a building as a column would


eg: caryatid porch of Erechtheion, Athens, 421-407 BCE

Term
Tetrastyle Amphiprostyle
Definition
Temple style with four columns at both front and rear of temple/naos
Term
Exekias
Definition

Worked: 550-525 BCE


Athenian, black figure pottery painter


Achilles & Ajax 540-530, Dyonysos cup, Dyonysos with son Oinopion 540-530

Term

Time Period:

 

Late Classical

Definition

c. 400 BCE

Praxiteles

skopas

lysippos

theater @ epidauros

monument of lysikrates

olynthos

priene

Term

Time Period:

 

Orientalizing

Definition

c. 700 - 600 BCE

Strong eastern influences

Prinias temple A

Lady of Auxerre

Corinthian black figure Vases

Term
Peristyle
Definition
columned porch or colonnade in a building surrounding a courtyard that may contain an internal garden
Term
Ionic Order
Definition

columns standing on base, 24 flutes, volute on capital

 

Entablature had cornice, frieze and architrave or eipstyle

Term
Doric Order
Definition

columns stood directly on stylobate with no base.  20 flutes, smooth capital flared to meet square abacus.

Eg: parthenon

Doric conflict: where the triglyph should go in relation to the columns.

Term
Apotropaic Figure
Definition
figure warding off evil, lots of animal/human combos
Term
tetrastyle prostyle
Definition
four column front of temple, as in temple of Portunus
Term
centauromachy
Definition
struggle between Lapiths and centaurs after leader of centaurs tried to rape bride at Lapithian wedding
Term
gigantomachy
Definition
symbolic struggle between olympians and giants, (order and chaos)
Term
antefix
Definition

vertical block that terminates the covering tiles on clay roof.

Grand buildings: richly carved stone

Normal: sculpted terracotta/ceramic

Term
himation
Definition
less volumionous than toga, worn over chiton, acted as cloak.
Term
chiton
Definition

unlike peplos, sewn

doric: no sleeves

ionic: buttoned all down arms

Term

Time Period:

Submycenaean

Subminoan

Proto Geometric

Definition

c. 1100-900 BCE

kerameikos cementary

refuge settlements on crete

oval & apsidal buildings

lefkandi & knossos have lots of eastern contacts

Term

Time Period:

 

Hellenistic

Definition

323 - 31 BCE

apollo temple @ didyma

zeus altar @ pergamon

venus de milo

seated boxer

Term

Time Period:

 

Geometric

Definition

c. 900-700 BCE

rectangular buildings

tomb of the rich athenian lady

smyrna's fortification walls

hera temple @ samos

bronze & clay figurines

diplyon vases

Term
column drum
Definition
"slice" of column used to create taller columns from smaller chunks of marble/stone
Term
distyle in antis
Definition
portico with two columns between antae
Term
Anta
Definition
column connected to the walls on either side of the naos
Term
fountain house
Definition
building with running water at edge of Athenian Agora
Term
Aeolic Capitals
Definition
Similar to Ionic, but with a palmate placed between the two volutes
Term
Peplos
Definition

body length garment worn before 500 BCE

tube of cloth folded over and tied at shoulder

Term
pseudo-dipteral temple
Definition

single peristyle on longer horizontal sides of temple, but double at back and front of cella


-larger distance between colonnade and cella than peristyle

Term

Kouros/Kourai

Kore/Korei

Definition

representations in clay/marble/stone of youths standing with arms by side (male)


female: one arm down, one outstretched.


male nude, female dressed

Term
dipteral temple
Definition
rather than 1 row of columns in colonnade, two rows all the way around sanctuary
Term

Time Period:

Early Classical

Definition

480 BCE, (end of Persian Wars)

severe style:

kritios boy

zeus of cape artemision

delphi charioteer

diskobolos by myron

zeus temple at Olympia

Term

Time Period:

Peloponnesian Wars

Definition

431-404 BCE

Sparta vs Delian League

Term
Ergotimos
Definition

6th century BCE

attic volute krater (francois vase)

black figure

Term
Peripteral temple
Definition
columns all the way around the outside of the sanctuary
Term
red figure
Definition

530-3rd century BCE

 

red figures, black background

applied before firing

Term
Euphronios
Definition

pioneer in red figure, 535-470 BCE

Late archaic, early classical

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