Modern History Chapter 2

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who was Pythogorus

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most important presocratic thinkers

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what was his Pythogorus theory

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the entire natural world, including the movement of planets depends on the same ratios

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who was Sappho

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famous poet

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subject of Sappho's poetry

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sensual, she talked about lesbians in her poetry

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what is the basis of the story of Lliod

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describes short period toward the end of the Trojan war(ca.1250bce) the ten year seige that a band of ancient greek military adventurers laid against the city of troy

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the main character of the story of Lliod

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Achillies, greatest solder.the story focuses on his anger and exploits

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what is the story of Odyssey

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he is captured bya giant one eyed cyclops. He gets the cyclops drunk, blinds him with a stake, and escapes from the monsters cave by clinging onto of a sheep so the cyclops cant feel him

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what are kouros

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ancient Greek statue of a standing nude man

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what are kore

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ancient Greek statue of standing clothed woman

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how does the art found in the "Greek Circle show that Mycenae was militaristic and rich in gold

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the tombs were in bored with gold

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name the three periods of early Greek history

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Geometric period ca. 1000-700BCE
Orientalizing period, Greek colonization and contact with the east ca. 700-600bce. Archaic period ca. 600-480bce

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who was Zeus

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survived saved by Rhea. when Zeus ultimately and inevitably revolted against his father. krones regurgitated all other children

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who was Demeter

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the goddess of agriculture and fertility

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who was Hera

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goddess of marriage and stability

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Who was Poseidon

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god of the sea

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who was Hestia

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goddess of hearth and home

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who was Appollo

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god of the sun and light represents intellectual beauty

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who was Athena

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goddess of wisdom, and of the arts and crafts, and patron goddess of Athens

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Frieze

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a band of or namental carving or painting, especially the middle section of an entablature, between the quarchive and cornice

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Pediment

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in classical architecture a triangular space at the end of a building formed by the cornice and the ends of the stopping roof

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Triglyphs

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part of the entablature of Doric order. Triglyphs have three sections and alternate with metopes

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Metope

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part of the entablature of the Doric order. Metopes, squish in shape and painted or carved alternate with triglyphs

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what was Trojan, war,who started it, why

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begins when the king of Mycenae, Agamemnon, leads the Greeks against the city of trot.

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why did the trojan war start

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in leggend the battle was said to have been reciprocated when Trojan prince Paris abducted Hellen, the wife of Agameman's brother

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name and describe the oldest monumental sculpture in Europe

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Symmetrical rampant gaurdian lions, muscular and powerful, flank and Minoan column-an "inverted" column that tapers downward and has cushion like capital

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oinochoe

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is a wine jug. Levy Oinochoe style. east Greek ca.650bce

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Orientalizing period

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the Greek cultural and artistic style of about 700-600 bce that was influenced greatly by the Near East

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Hubris

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actions that shamed and humiliated the victim for the pleasure or gratification of the abuser

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Colonade

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denoted a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free standing, or part of a building

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Entablature

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in architecture, the horizontal structure above the columns and capitals and below the roof

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fluted

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vertical grooves on a surface of a column

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capital

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decorative top part of a column that supports the entablature

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clyclaid art

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marble statuette of a nude female with her arms crossed over her body

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labyrinth

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the house of the double axes

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faience

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a lustrous glazed ceramic

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tholos

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the term for any round building in the case of domed circular tomb shaped like a beehive about 43 feet high

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corbeled dome

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the technical name for the tholos

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rhyton

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(drinking vessel) in the shape of a lions head, gold cups, bronze dagger

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polies/polis

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Greek polis which provided the focus for political, artistic, and religious activities in the region

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krater

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a large vase with a wide mouth. the subject depicted on this vase, used to mark a burial is a common one

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what did H.Schliemann and Sir Arthur Evans prove about Homers "fictional" world

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it really existed

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the three civilizations

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cycladic culture on the Cyclades island. the Minoan culture centered on the island of Crete. Mycenean or Hellodic culture on the Greek mainland

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describe the Minoon column what was the significance of bulls

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referd to as an "inverted" column becouse unlike the later Greek column it tapers downward, the dinameter being smaller at rhe bottom then the top

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Minoon column made of

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wood and painted red

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the famous bull fresco

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the dark areas are original the rest is restoration. the activity depicted here is bull vaulting remains unclear