Greek Art

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Discus Thrower/Diskobolos

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By Myron; Classical

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Sanctuaries

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Scared to one or more gods; closed with walls

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Temenos

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Palatial home for the gods; Greeks treat each element within individually

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Treasuries

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Store valuables

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Omphalos

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Naval; sky was attached to Omphalos of the Earth

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Oracle

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Place where god communite with humans

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Apollo's Messanger

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Pythia

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Colonnade

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Row of columns

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Stoa

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Columned pavilion open on three sides

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Halos

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Outdoor pavement; where to watch ceremonial dancing

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Geometric Period*

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1000-700 BCE*

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Orientalizing Period*

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700-600 BCE*

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Archaic Period*

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600-480 BCE*

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Classical Period

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480-380 BCE

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Late Archaic/Classical*

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530-400 BCE*

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Early Classical Period

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480-450 BCE; Severe Style

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Mature Classical Period

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450-400 BCE

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Late Classical Period

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400-325 BCE

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Classical to Hellenistic*

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450-1st century BCE*

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Cross-hatching

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Density of tone; illusion of shadow; Early Geometric

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Centaur

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Geometric; large size (1 ft+); Hollow body formed like a vase of a potter's wheel; deliberately broken into two pieces (ritual significance?)

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Slip

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Mixture of water and clay

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Dipylon Gate

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Vases discovered at this Western gate of Athens; Geometric first time human beings are depicted as part of narrative

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Difference Between Greek and Egyptian Version of Death

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Greek: survivors; Egyptians: fate of dead

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Man and Centaur

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Broze, 750 BCE; geometric; man stab centaur;

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Negative Spaces

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Open spaces designed to render piece pleasing from every view

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Porch

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Over the door of an early Greek temple

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Gable

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Triangular area in facade

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Facade

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Area directly above the front door

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Cella

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Naos; main room of temple; statue in lieu of hearth

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Pronaos

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Reception area that preceeds the audience hall

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Olpe

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Wide-mouthed pitcher

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Rosettes

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Stylized flower forms

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Black-Figure

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Dark shapes against very pale buff, color of Corinthian clay

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Gloss

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Clay slip mixed with metallic elements

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Elevations

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Arrangement, proportions, and apperance of the columns and entablatures (Doric, Ionian)

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Hera I

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On Paestum/Poseidonia; post and lintel structure; peristyle

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Peristyle

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Row of columns that surrounds the cella on all sides

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Entablature

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Tall lintel area

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Cornice

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Topmost element of entablature

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Raking Cornices

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Slanted cornices of the room

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Pediment

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Traingular Gable

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Necking

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Transition from the shaft

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Echinus

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Cushionlike, above Necking

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Abacus

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Square

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Architrave

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Plain flat band; part of Entablature; topped by decorated band

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Pillars

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Anta

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In antis

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Two columns between Pillars

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Amphiprostyle

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Row of columns at front and back but not on the sides

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Portico

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Framed by amphiprostyle; covered entrance porches

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Peristyle

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Peripteral; collonade on all 4 sides

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Adyton

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Unlit inner chamber at end of cella proper

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Opithodomos

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Enclosed porch at the back

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Stylobate

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Top step of the stereobate/layered foundation

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Stereobate

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Layered foundation

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Acroteria

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Waterspouts and terminal decorative elements

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Doric Order Proportion

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5.5:1 (height to diameter of base); 7:1

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Ionic Order Proportion

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9:1

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Corinthian capitals

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Stylized acanthus* leaves

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Astragal

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Convex band; Corinthian

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Entasis

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Columns swell in middle and then contract at top

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High Relief

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Break architectural frame

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Treasury of the Siphnians

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Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi; two caryatids

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Caryatids

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Columns carved in the form of draped women

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Groundline

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Self explanatory

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Doric Temple of Aphaia at Aegina

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Figures crouched/rising to fill the pediment; 490-480 BC

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Kore

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Korai plural; Greek woman; always clothed

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Kouros

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Kouroi; young man: gods, warriors, or athletes

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New York Kouros

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580 BCE; Like Menkaure; Statute in the round; nudity removes him from a social class

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Archaic Smile

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Closed-lip smile

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Kroisos Kouros

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530 BCE; Heroic strength

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Berline Kore

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570-560 BCE; parallel folds like on a columns robe was once painted; pomegranate in her right hand (Persephone)

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Attribute

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Indentifying symbol

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Peplos Kore

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530 BC; from Acropolis;

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Peplos

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Draped rectangle of cloth

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Encaustic

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Pigments and hot wax

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Kore (Chios)

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520 BC; Chiton (like Peplos but fuller); himaton

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Himation

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Cloak

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Calf Bearer

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560 BC

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Francois Vase

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transition from geometric to Archaic; 570 BCE, by Kleitias; marriage of Peleus and Thetis

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Volute Krater

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Large, vessel with scroll-shaped volute/handles

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Kleitias

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Made Francois Vase

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Amphora

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Large, all purpose storage jar

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Maenads

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Female worshippers of Dionysos

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Amasis Painter

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6century BC Amphora

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Tempera

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Paint made from egg yolks, water, and pigments

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Kantharos

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Wine Cup

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Exekias

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Artist; 6th century BCE

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Hydria

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Water jug

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Palmettes

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Fan-shaped petal designs

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Women at a Fountain House

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The Priam Painter; hydria

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Red-Figure

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Latter third of 6th century

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Euphronios*

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Red-figure technique master

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calyx krater

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Handles curve up like a flower calyx

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Death of Sarpedon

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By Euphronios

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Foreshortening

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used of Euphronios; gives effect of real space around the figures

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Kylix

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Drinking cup

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horror-vacui

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Fear of empty spaces

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naive realism

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Graves, processions, ect

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Prothesis

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Death scene

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Mantiklos Apollo

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Offering to either Apollo or another guy (titular)

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Center of art in geometric period

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Corinth

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Color of art in geometric period

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Black figure

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Cella

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The interior temple structure, where statue is housed

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In Antis

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The position of columns between two walls

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Prostyle

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The columns form a Portico or walkway across the front

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Amphiprostyle

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Has a colonnade on both front and back.

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Peripteral

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Any room surrounded by a row of columns.

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Peristyle

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A surrounding colonnade of columns

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Dipteral

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A building with a double peristyle (surrounded by two rows of columns)

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Stylobate

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Upper

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Stereobate

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Lower

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Fascaie

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Architrave divided into 3 of these

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Metopes and triglyphs

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Frieze divided into this in Doric order

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Siphnian Treasury

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earliest caryatids

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Temple of Aphaia

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Known for triangular pediment, dying warrior

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isocephaly

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Heads at the same level*

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Exekias

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Master of Black figure

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sgraffito

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Carve linear detail into black shapes

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Euphronios

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Red figure

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Death of Sarpedon

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Euphronius work

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Euthymides

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Twist human body

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Pan Painter

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Artemis slaying Acteon

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Birth of Athena; Posideon/Athena's contest

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Pantheon front and back pediments

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Panathenaic frieze

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Inside of Pantheon

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erechthem

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Mnesikles

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Krekrops

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Where erechtheum is

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Propylaia

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House public art

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Defeat of the Persians

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Freize on Athena-Nike

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Dolyphoros/Wounded Amazon

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Polykleitos

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Europa/Zeus

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Berlin Painter

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Penthesilea painter

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Panthesilea

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Athelete w/ a Strigil

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Lysippos

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Aphrodite of Knidos

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Praxiteles

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Hermes and Infant Dionysos

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Praxiteles

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battle of issus

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Mosaic; classical

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Epigonos

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Gallic cheftain; pergamon

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Ambulatory

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Skene

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scene building

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Proscenium

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archway at the front of stage

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Parados

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song by greek chorus

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Athena Pronaia

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Tholos

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Venus de Milo

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Alexander of Antioch