ARS 101 Module 2 Quiz
Greek art shows the influences of Egyptian art.
True
The nude male figure is central to Greek art.
True
The sea was more important in Greek culture than it was in Egypt.
True
Schliemann found ancient objects like what?
Weapons, jewelry, and household items
The Minoan civilization was located where?
Island of Crete
The name Peloponnesus came from?
King Pelops
Used primarily by the Minoans and has never been deciphered or translated.
Linear A
Used primarily by the Mycenaeans and was deciphered in the 1950's.
Linear B
The Mycenaean civilization was located on?
Mainland Greece
The man who was not a professional scholar or linguistic expert (actually an architect) but was able to help decipher one of the Linear scripts.
Michael Ventris
Two important Bronze Age Greek civilizations were?
Minoan, Mycenaean
One of the major Minoan sites he excavated was?
Palace of Minos at Knossos
Doryphoros
Polykleitos, 450-440 BCE
Schliemann's findings are often referred to as what?
Priam's Treasure or The Trojan Gold
Schliemann has been criticized for what?
Removing the objects he found without dividing it as required
The objects that Schliemann found were believed to have been lost or stolen or destroyed and it remained a mystery following WWII. We now know the treasures are in?
Russia
Who was the British scholar/excavator who identified and named the Minoan civilization?
Sir Arthur Evans
Lion Gate, Mycenae
1250 BCE, Limestone Relief.
Bronze Dagger Blade, Mycenae
1550-1500 BCE. National Archaeology Museum in Athens.
Reconstruction drawing of the Palace Complex, Knossos, Crete
1900 BCE to 1450 BCE. Neolithic Period to New Palace Period.
Marshals and Young Women
432 BCE High Classical Period - detail of the precession, from the lonic frieze on the east side of the parthenon.
Lapith Fighting a Centaur
447-432 BCE, from Parthenon, Athens, Greece
Horsemen (frieze)
447-432 BCE.
Parthenon
447-432 BCE. A temple dedicated to the goddess Athena.
Warrior from Riace
460-450 BCE
Kritios Boy
480 BCE
Death of Sarpedon
515 BCE. Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter)
Peplos Kore
530 BCE
Battle Between the Gods and the Giants
530-525 BCE
Reconstruction drawing of the treasury of the Siphnians.
530-525 BCE. Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi.
Metropolitan Kouros
600-590 BCE
Olpe
650-625 BCE. Wide-mouthed pitcher
Funerary Krater from Dipylon
750-735 BCE. Dipylon Cemetery in Athens. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Anavysos Kouros
Archaic Greek. c. 530 B.C.E. Marble with remnants of paint.
Greek statues show the artists' efforts to do what?
Be inventive
Schliemann discovered ruins at a site in Turkey that he believed to be the ancient city of Troy but what he found was actually?
Earlier than Troy
Linear A and Linear B are examples of what type of source?
Epigraphic
Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game
Exekias 540-530 BCE
Greek statues show many changes and artistic evolutions similar to Egyptian statues.
False
Heinrich Schliemann worked as an archaeologist at Troy after being sent by his government to dig in Turkey with British scholars.
False
In Bronze Age Greece there were no civilizations with large societies, no written records, or any forms of technology, and there was very limited trading.
False
The objects found in Turkey at the site of Ancient Troy are proof of the historicity of the stories in Homer's epic's The Iliad and The Odyssey.
False
Schliemann's discoveries at Troy can be seen where?
In a photograph of his wife
Presentation of the Peplos
The culmination of the festival and the procession.
The kore are statues of _______ and the kouros are statues of _______.
Young women and young men