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Minoan |
The culture that was located on the island of Crete and is thought to be the home |
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Mycenaean |
A more war like society on mainland Greece with heavy, fortifed cities, many of the heroes of the trojan war are of this culture. |
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Myth |
Ancient stores rooted in primitive experience |
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Aesop |
A particular writer that wrote a number of moralizing short stories which used talking animals to teach a particular point or moral issue.
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Illiad |
Ancient Epic Poem, written down by Homer which details a segment of the Trojan dealing with the Wrath of Achilles. |
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Odyssey |
Ancient poem, by Homer, which details the RETURN of ODYSSEUS from the trojan and the trails and tribulations he encountered in 10 years of travel. |
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Achilles |
A hero of the Iliad who was wronged by his commander, Agamemnon, and refused to fight until his best friend was killed. He eventually was killed by an arrow to his tendon. |
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Plato |
Famous Greek Philosopher of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. who studied with Socrates. One of his famous treatise is the "Allegory of the Cave" which is part of the book THE REPUBLIC |
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Aristotle |
Greek philosopher, of 4th century BC, who was teacher of Alexander the Great. He believed in the power of the senses which was the true reality.
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SPQR |
A Roman acronym which stands for the "The Senate and the Roman People" (Senatus Populusque Romanus). |
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Pax Romana |
Latin for Roman Peace |
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Forum |
Roman Market Place |
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Mishnah |
Systemization of previous attempts to summarize the heterogeneous mass of custon, concept and legislation (oral tradition) which had grown up among the Jews in the centuries before its compilation. |
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Christianity |
A religious belief system based upon the belief of Jesus as son of God with his life, death, and Resurrection from the dead. |
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Judaism |
A religion of a group of ppl whose early patriarch was Abraham. Other impo leaders included Moses, David, and Solomon. It's daughter religion is Christianity.
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Agamemnon |
Principal leader of Greek (Mycenaean) forces against the Trojans during the Trojan War. He got into a major argument with Achilles over a woman. |
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HOMER |
Supposedly a blind poet who had the epic poems, Illiad and the Odyssey written down.
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Kouros
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Greek name for a male figure especially in sculpture |
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Kore |
Greek name for a female figure in sculpture
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Agora
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Greek Market Place |
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Alex the Great |
Macedonian general whose armies conquered much of the middle east, going as far as the Indus river in India. He is responsible for spreading the Greek Culture. Aristotle was his friend and teacher. |
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Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes |
3 great tragedians of the greeks in the 5th centure |
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fresco |
painting technique which involves placing of a pigment on a wet plaster. Very durable. |
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Allegory of the cave |
treatise which deals with philosophers, kings and individuals. where the individuals are placed in a cave (chained). They can only see what is placed before them, in the form of shadows. But every once in awhile, one can escape, flee and return to help liberate the rest...that is if they want to go.
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Post and Lintel |
An architectural construction manner in which the post is a vertical shaft and Lintel is a horizontal element resting on the post. The parthenon is a good example of this manner. |
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Socrates |
Famous philosopher, 5th century, who said "Know thyself." Plato was his STUDENT and ADMIRER. |
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Virgil |
Famous Roman writer of an Epic Poem called Aeneid |
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Line |
Basic building block of a visual design |
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Jesus Christ |
Christianity is based upon the life, death, and resurrection from the dead of this individual. He is considered Son of God. |
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St. Paul the Apostle |
Considered the first major theologian of Christianity; he brought christianity to the Gentiles (non jews); and wrote a large portion of the Letters (epistles) in the New Testament. |
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New Testament |
composted of the four gospels; letters by apostles and influential leaders; and revelation. The major text consulted by Christians. |
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Aqueduct |
architectural entity that carries water from near or far sources; the Romans were advocates of this and perfected their use. |
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Philosphy |
study of and/or the Love of Wisdom |
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Pediment |
a wide, low pitched gable atop the facade of Greek-style buidling. Both Greeks and Romans would place sculpture entities in this space. |
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Hellenistic |
In the visual art, architecture, and theater, a style dating from the 4th century to the 2nd century BC that encompassed a diversity of approaches reflecting an increasing interest in the differences between individual humans and characterized by emotion, drama, and interaction of sculptural forms with the surrounding space. In architecture, it reflected a change in proportions from the classical and introduced the corinthian order.
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Hesiod |
A Greek Poet who lived around the 8th century BC and wrote in Works and Days and the Theogony |
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Academy |
From the grove where Plato taught; the term has come to mean the cultural and artistic and establishment that exercises responsibility for teaching and maintenance of standards |
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Lyceum |
The school that was founded by Aristotle in Athens after Alexander the Great inherited his father's kingdom.
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Classicism |
Principles, historical tradition, aesthetic attitudes, or style of the arts of ancient Greece and Rome, including works created in those times or later inspired by those times. |
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Caesar Augustus |
The first emperor of Rome. He was a great patron of the arts. It was said that he received Rome as a city of brings and returned it as a city of marble. He was the principal of patron of Vergil the poet. |
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Colonnade |
A series of columns placed at regular intervals usually connected by lintels. |
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Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian |
3 types of capitals or orders developed and utilized by the Greeks and Romans. |
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Polis |
A greek city state. The mature city state was a slef governing community that expressed the will of free citizens, not the desires of gods, hereditary kings, or priests. |
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Aristophanes |
Greatest greek comic playwright, similar to euripedes, was a political and social commentator. Only eleven of his 44 comedies are extant. He wrote hilarious lines. |
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Acropolis |
City on a hill; highest point in a city and is usually crowned with a temple. |
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Contrapposto |
Arrangement of body parts so that the weight-bearing leg is apart from the free leg, thereby shifting the hip-shoulder axis. |
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Stoicism |
A greek philosopher that the world constituted a single society. Stoicism was belief that universe contained a principle order. |
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Aeneid |
Roman Epic Poem written by Virgil. Caesar Augustus was the principal patron of Vergil. |
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Megaron |
Architectural building design which would evolve from simple structure to christian church. |
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amphitheatre |
oval or circular in form and encloses a central performance area |
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Column |
a supporting pillar consisting of a base, cylindrical shaft, and capital |
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Capital |
top part of a pillar or column; transition between top of a column and lintel. |