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Antigone

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The Greeks believed that in art, beauty related to what?
Moral character
What are the 3 phases of Greek art?
1. Archaic 2. Classical 3. Hellenistic
The Archaic Age was what kind of society?
Warfare society
What did Mycenean art consist of?
Weapons
What are Kouros statues?
Grave statues that commemorate dead heroes
What were Kouros statues the embodiment of?
Sex and death
What is the Kore statue?
The female version of a Kouros statue
What part of the body did the Kouros statue focus on?
The knee
What was something important about the way the Kore statue looked?
It was clothed
What is a palmette?
An ornament of radiating metal that is placed on top of a grave
What is a relief?
A sculptured surface
What is a stele?
An upright slab of stone that has a relied on it
What is the Severe style?
It is associated with funeral customs and emphasized dignity and nobility
What is counterposto?
When the legs of a statue are in front for support
What did the Hellenic age start to do?
Put the gods in motion
What did the Hellenic age believe in?
simplicity > complexity symmetry > asymmetry
What is a tyrant?
Someone who is called to reform a city
What did Cleisthenes do?
He started to establish democracy
Where was democracy started and what did it mean?
It started in Athens and it meant that all free males had rites
Who was Pericles?
A man who furthered democracy
What was the High Classical style of art during the Hellenic Age?
It showed grace under pressure
Which Persian king ruled over a Greek polis in Ionia?
Darius
Why did the Greeks attack Darius?
Because he demanded that they pay taxes
Who was Darius' son and what did he try to do?
His son was Xerxes and he tried to overrun North Greece
Who defeated Darius' son?
The Spartans
What were the wars with Darius and his son called?
The Persian Wars
What started the downfall of Greece?
The Pelopponesian Wars
What were the Pelopponesian Wars?
Wars between Sparta and Greece that started because Athens was misusing money
What is the Praxitelean curve?
A curve that statues have that shape them like an s
What are the 3 types in Greek architecture?
1. Doric 2. Ionian 3. Corinthian
What is a cella?
A room that hold statues
What is a polis?
A city state
Who said that "man is a political animal"?
Aristotle
What does a lot of drama debate?
War
Who said that "war is to man what marriage is to women"?
Vernant

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