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contrapposto
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pronounced S-curve in a sculpture
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contrapposto
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pediment
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frieze |
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capital
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Doric column
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Ionic column
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Corinthian column
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the backround of a scene was entirely painted (appearing as black) and the figures were left unpainted (apeating as red)except for the fine details of anatomy. Expressive story telling.
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red-figure technique
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red-figure technique
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long narratives sung before written; depicts a hero with above average strength and intelligence; recounts a journey the hero takes to accomplish an important task; battle scenes; super natural events, characters (ghosts, witches, monsters)
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Epic poetry
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examples of epic poems
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Odyssey; iliad
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who was the first person to write epic poems down?
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Homer
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Aeschylus |
Oresteia
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Sophocles |
Oedipus; Antigone |
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Euripides |
Medea |
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Aristophanes |
Lysistrata |
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Tragedy
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drama involving mythic characters whose pride leads them into suffering and death |
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archaic sculpture
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classical sculpture
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Hellenistic sculpture
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Minoan artifact
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Mycenaean artifact |
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Virgil
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Epic poetry writer in Rome; wrote Aeneia
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Catullus
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Wrote about his lover. she turned out to be a tramp. love poems turned into hate poems |
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Pompeii |
town that was covered when a volcano erupted. preserved the city. found out a lot about ancient Greece because of this city
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Colosseum
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amphitheater; wild animal combats; fight to deaths; wood floor where they fought, under it were catacombs where they held the animals and the gladiators stayed until they fought.
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Pantheon
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temple/ place of worship; hole in the ceiling (called the oculus) grooves around the hole called coffers
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forum
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downtown areas where all the shops, business's ect were. public baths were here too (like todays gyms) |
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Column of Trajan
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Trajan was an emperor; had this column made; sculpture all around it (propaganda)
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Augustus of Primaporta (sacred)
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bust portrait
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