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Cosmogony
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Any theory concerning the creation of the universe or reality.
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Hieros Gamos
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Refers to sexual ritual between a God and a Goddess that plays out a marriage.
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Black Figure Technique
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Brush dry clay with watered down clay. black paint used, stylus used to carve out fine figures and fine brush used to paint.
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Temenos
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a piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god
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Chalcidan
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was a helmet made of bronze and worn by ancient warriors of the Hellenic world, especially popular in Greece in the fourth and fifth centuries BC
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Sparagmos
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ancient Dionysian ritual in which a living animal, or sometimes even a human being, would be sacrificed by being dismembered, by the tearing apart of limbs from the body.
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Obverse vs. Reverse
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The two sides of a coin or dollar bill.
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Meniskos
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Bronze disk mounted on some greek statues on an iron nail drilled through the statue's head. Prevented birds from crapping on the statues' heads.
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Kore
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is the name given to a type of ancient Greek sculpture of the Archaic period. They both show the restrained "archaic smile", but - unlike the nude kouroi - korai are depicted in thick drapery, ornate and (in painted examples) very colorful and often have elaborate braided hairdos
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Amazonomachy
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women fighting with one exposed breast, they always lose.
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