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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