ARTH 103 Chapter 5 and 6

Goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and the moon. Daughter of Zeus and Leto, sister of Apollo. Carries bow and arrows and is accompanied by hunting dogs.

Artemis

Goddess of wisdom, war, victory, the city, handcrafts, and other artistic skills. Daughter of Zeus. She sprang fully grown from his head.

Athena

a lost massive chryselephantine sculpture of the Greek goddess Athena, made by Phidias and his assistants and housed in the Parthenon in Athens

Athena Parthenos

The painting of black figures and scenes onto naturally reddish orange clay and ceramic objects.

Black-figure painting

a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.

Caryatid

The principal room at the center of a Greek or Roman temple within which the cult statue was usually housed.

Cella/Naos

an asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure in which the line of the arms and shoulders contrasts with while balancing those of the hips and legs.

Contraspposto

the highest mountain in Greece and the second, home of the 12 olympians

Mt. Olympus

a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.

Naturalism

a goddess who personified victory, also known as the Winged Goddess of Victory

Nike

a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece 700 BC

Orkhestra

a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron.

Parthenon

body-length garment established as typical attire for women in ancient Greece by 500 BC

Peplos

a columned porch or open colonnade in a building surrounding a court that may contain an internal garden.

Peristyle

God of the sea, holds a trident.

Poseidon

the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue

Praxiteles

a vestibule at the front of a classical temple, enclosed by a portico and projecting sidewalls.

Pronaos

any monumental gateway based on the original Propylaea that serves as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens.

Propylaia

The background areas were painted black, and the figures were depicted through the natural color of the clay.

Red-figure painting

an individual tile, usually formed in the shape of a cube, used in creating a mosaic.

Tesserae

Polykleitos was an ancient Greek sculptor in bronze of the 5th century BCE. Created a set of conventions about how to perfectly render the human form based on several mathematical principles

The Canon of Polykleitos

A specific type of smile sculpted to suggest that their subject was alive, and infused with a sense of well-being. Often flat and quite unnatural looking,

Archaic smile

The citadel of an ancient Greek city located at its highest point and housing temples, a treasury, and sometimes a royal palace. Most famous is the Akropolis in Athens.

Akropolis

was a King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.

Alexander the Great

Goddess of love, daughter of Zeus and the water nymph Dione.

Aphrodite

God of sun, light, truth, music, archery, and healing. Son of Zeus and Leto, brother of Artemis.

Apollo

God of wine, the grape harvest, and inspiration. His female followers are called maenads

Dionysos

characterized by or decorated with regular lines and shapes

Geometric Motifs

Hera is the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion; the goddess of women and marriage.

Hera

Messenger of the gods, god of fertility and luck, guide of the dead to the underworld, and god of thieves and commerce.

Hermes

the practice of forming or pursuing ideals, especially unrealistically

Idealism

a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.

Ionic Frieze

a type of free-standing ancient Greek sculpture of the Archaic period depicting female figures, always of a young age.

Kore

free-standing ancient Greek sculptures which first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and represent nude male youths.

Kouros

a large vase which was used to mix wine and water

Krater

a type of wine-drinking cup with a broad relatively shallow body raised on a stem from a foot and usually with two horizontal handles disposed symmetrically.

Kylix

a large rigid or at least stiff neck ring in metal, made either as a single piece or from strands twisted together.

Torc

Zeus was the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus

Zeus

A watered down clay mixture used to heal pieces of clay together.

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