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Ch5: Greece
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Athens Golden Age began and ended with: | Began with the victory over the Persians and ended with the defeaet by sparts |
| Occupation of a typical Athenian citizen? | Excersise political duties |
| Why did Athenian citizens have so much free time? | They were outnumbered by slaves |
| Why is Athens the 'school of hellas' | Athens taught all of Greece by their example |
| Platos' ideal republic: | the arts would be banned |
| Arostotles 'good life': | balancing action between extremes of behavior |
| Aristotle believed you could come to know universal truth by: | obverving the material world itself |
| Catharsis | Audience feels what the actor/producers are trying to portray. Instigates change in the audience |
| Contraposto | idea of balance and weight shifts in sculptures |
| Golden Mean | The middle groupnd between two extremes of behavior |
| Panathenaic procession | A parade in Athens every four years to celebrate athena |
| Classical faces | No expression, balanced and clean of emotion |
| Archaic smile | Archaic statues had an upturned mouth |
| Polykleitos | Model for the perfect man in the classical time period |
| Pergamon | A city |
| Hellinistic art | More expression, drama, and emotion. Exploration with different themes, and subjects of the pieces (foreigners, children, old people, etc.) |
| Praxiteles | Scupture. Created a more dreamy profile in his statues. Hellinistic art. |
| Socratic method (also known as?) | Dialectic method: process of teaching using questions |
| metaphysics | The study of things you can't physically see. Thought, philosophy, etc. |
| allegory | Story that works by itself, but also can have different meanings |
| Name Aristotles 6 parts of tragedy | PCSTMS. Plot, Character, Speech, Thought, Melody, Spectacle |
| Deus Ex Machina | God from the machine. Makes a spectacle out of the Gods. Euripides used this. |
| Tragedy | You have a basic problem at the beginning, and everything gets worse until it falls apart |
| Name 3 things Euripides did that was unusual | Focus on women/foreigners/outsiders etc. Bends of changes the myth First speaker is low status (Added more people?) (Chalanging innovator) |
| Name a work of Sophocles | Oedipus the King |
| Name the trilogy from Aeschylus | Oresteia: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides |
| Stoa | Rows of columns with a roof attached |
| Collinade | Row of long columns |
| Egyptian Hypostyle hall | Lots of columns everywhere. |
| Agora | Open place used for congregating |
| How was the Parthenon temple unique (Note: it was a doric building) | Different proportions (8x17 rather than the typical 6x13 for doric buildings) It has a frieze (unique to ionic buildings) More elaborate statues than was typical of the time |
| Caryatids | Columns that look like women |
| The acropolis | The 'City on the heights'. A fortified part of an ancient greek city. Political, religious, and cultural site |
| Propylea/Propylaia | Entrance gate to the acropolis |
| Perfect proportion for temples | # columns along the front x 2 + 1 |
| Flute | Grooves in the column |
| Frieze | Continuous band of decorations on the ionic order |
| Naos | Central room in the temples where the cult statue is |
| Doric | Masculine, short, fat, wider base |
| Ionic | Feminine, had a frieze |
| Corinthian | Feminine, young woman, has fancier decorations on top (the leafs) |
| Oligarchy | A small group of people having control of a country, organization, etc. |
| Metics | Resident aliens. People who came from abroad such as potters and artists, and philosophers |
| Sophism | Asking "how do we know what we think we know" Argument used to decieve |
| inductive reasoning | Going from specific instances to general principles. Or going from particular truths to universal ones |
| symposium | a drinking party for men |
| Syllogism | Two facts from which a conclusion can be drawn. Ex. I am human, all humans die; I will die |
| chryselephantine | Overlayed with gold or ivory |
| Centauromachy | Fight between humans and centaurs. The centaurs look scary and demonized |
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