Chapter 5: Ancient Greece [Practice for Quiz 5]

In the statue of Athena Parthenos, what did she hold that made an overt reference to the Athenian victory over the Persians in 479 bc?

...A winged Nike figure

The Geometric krater would most likely be found in which of the following?

...An Athenian cemetery of the Geometric period

Who is usually given credit for the invention of the red-figure technique as seen in the amphora of "Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game"?

...Andokides painter

In his ____, Praxiteles took the unprecedented step of representing a female nude.

...Aphrodite of Knidos

What event is chronicled on the frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike detailing victory over the Persians?

...Battle at Marathon

The rigidly frontal pose of archaic statues reflects the influence of

...Egyptian art

The asymmetrical plan of the ____ from the Athenian Acropolis is unique.

...Erechtheion

In the gigantomachy of the Altar of Zeus, Pergamon alludes to a victory of the Pergamenes over the ____ in the third century bce.

...Gauls

A standing nude figure of a young man is known in Greek art as which of the following?

...Kouros

The earliest known example of the use of contrapposto is the sculpture known as the

...Kritios Boy

____ was a Greek colony in Egypt that brought the Greeks into direct contact with Egyptian monumental architecture.

...Naukratis

Scholars mostly agree that the Ionic frieze on the Parthenon is a representation of the

...Panathenaic procession

What scene is represented on the attic white-ground lekythos painted by the so-called Achilles Painter?

...Warrior taking leave of his wife

In contrast to earlier pediments, the pedimental sculptures of the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina feature

...a unified theme and consistent scale

The Hellenistic image of Athena battling Alkyoneos on the Altar of Zeus has ____ not found in earlier sculpture.

...an emotional intensity

Evident in the absence of a pediment and a roof, the Temple of Apollo, Didyma, reflected the ability of Hellenistic architecture to

...be surprising and dramatic

A female statue column used as an architectural support was known as a

...caryatid

The sculptor Polykleitos imposed order on human movement in his Doryphoros by

...creating a system of cross balances

The ____ is the historical event that ushered in the beginning of the Classical period.

...defeat of the Persians

The depiction of Greeks on the Ionic frieze of the Parthenon was exceptional because

...no human event had been depicted on a temple

One of the rooms of the Propylaia reportedly functioned as a

...picture gallery

In the Archaic period, the black-figure style of vase painting was replaced by the ____ style.

...red-figure

The drapery worn by the three goddesses on the Parthenon is characterized as

...revealing and concealing the body masses

The Corinthian black-figure amphora with animal friezes demonstrates the Greek fascination with ____.

...the Orient

One indication that the lady of Auxerre may be a kore is

...the gesture of prayer