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describe Minoan sculpture
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a famous goddess
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snake goddess
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rounded limbs, pinched waist, elaborate costume, holding snakes that perhaps cured disease. snakes may represent male fertility
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what was the Trojan war
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Greeks against Troy in ten year war.
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why did the Trojan war take place
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Paris abducts Hellen, Agamemnon's brothers wife
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where did the Trojan war take place
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Troy(llium), modern Turkey 1194-1184BCE
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name and describe the oldest monumental sculpture in Europe
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Lion Gate at the entrance of Mycenea. 9.5 lion guarding the gate of well-fortified city
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how does art in grave circle show war and a city "rich in gold"?
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6ft, shaft graves containing bodies laden with gold. death masks. gold cups, ect. carved with military themes
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what and where is Akrotiri
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an ancient city (in ruins) on Thera or Satorini . Atlantis.
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what was Akrotiri landscape
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colorful, rhythmic- not literal but decorative
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H. Schliemann and Sir Arthur Evans proved what
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that these civilizations existed. cycladic (islands), Minoon-crete, Mycenean- Mainland
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who where the Minoans
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people who lived on Crete, believed they decended from Zues
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why didn't Minoans have military
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artist no fighters - well protected by the sea
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why didnt Minoans have temples
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no need for temples
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Archne in web
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weaving too beautiful
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Atlas
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held weight of heavens on his shoulders
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Hercules
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took his place (twelve labors)
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Dionysus
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raised by Nymphs, sent wonder by Hera, brought madness, disorder and ecstatic celebration
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how did Dipylon krater exhibit geometric style
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round,symbols on them
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basic story of Lliod and main character
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the story of the anger and exploits of Achillies, a Greek tragic hero in the Trojan war
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the themes of the Llod story
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human responsibility and horrible consequences of war
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story of Odyssey
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Odysseus journey home from Trojan war to his waiting wife Penelope. he has metal fortitude through many exploits defeating gods and monsters on the way home. like Cyclopes. values family,home and faithfulness
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name the three periods of early greek history?
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Geometric 100-700BCE, Orientalizing 700-600BCE,Archaic 600-480BCE. Dipylon krater (geometric) circles and characters
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Ouranos
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wife Goea, 1st god, heavens
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Titans
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giants
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Zeus
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wife Hera, chief of Olympian gods
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Demeter
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agriculture/fertility
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posedian
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sea
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Hestia
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hearth and home
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Appollo
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order, sun,beauty
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Ares
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war
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Artemis
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moon/hurt
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Athena
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wisdom/arts (born from head of Zeus)
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Eros
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love-cupid
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describe Corinthian pottery by color and design
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light background with purplish/reddish brown design
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what replaced abstract decoration on Archaic values
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human forms
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black figure style
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black glaze on natural red clay background: details created by scratching off black glaze
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Master, describe Ajax amphora
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master exekia
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red figure style
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figures are red (color of natural clay) black glaze scratched off to form figure, details added with point. more natural, true to color of greek skin, more detailed and realistic
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describe Death of Sarpedon
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Sarpedon, Greek general killed by petroclus in Trojan war. death and sleep bring him home; Hermes oversees. he guides desd to Hades
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describe a Doric temple and temples of Hera at Paestum
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simplest design, little decoration, thick column's
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what are Kouros and kore and Egyptian in style.
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early Greek statue. simple formal pose-left foot forward, clenched fist, formal pose, nude. Kouros= young male. Kore= young female
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who was Pythagorus
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early philosopher who based his theories on numbers
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Pythagorus theory
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ratios governed everything, even music
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who was Sappho
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lyric poet from Lesbos
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subject of Sappho
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homo-erotic poetry
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