Ch. 5 – Greek Art – Flashcard Images and Terms
Geometric Period: 1100-750 BCE
1. Geometric krater, from the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 740 BCE. Approx. 3’ 4 1/2”
high.
Terms:
1. Polis
Orientalizing Period: 725-600 BCE
1. Corinthian black-figure amphora with animal friezes, from Rhodes, Greece, ca. 625–600 BCE.
Approx. 1’ 2” high.
Archaic Period: 600-480 BCE
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Kouros, ca. 600 BCE. Marble, approx. 6’ 1/2” high.
Peplos Kore, from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 530 BCE. Marble, approx. 4’ high.
Calf Bearer (Moschophoros), Athens, Greece ca. 560 BC
Temple of Hera I (“Basilica”), Paestum, Italy, ca. 550 BCE
EXEKIAS, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game (detail from an Attic black-figure amphora), from
Vulci, Italy, ca. 540–530 BCE. Whole vessel approx. 2’ high. Vatican Museums, Rome.
6. EUPHRONIOS, Herakles wrestling Antaios (detail of an Attic red-figure calyx krater), from
Cerveteri, Italy, ca. 510 BCE. Whole vessel approx. 1’ 7” high. Louvre, Paris.
7. Dying warrior, from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, ca. 490–480
BCE. Marble, approx. 6’ 1” long. Glyptothek, Munich.
Early Classical Period: 480-450 BCE
1. Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, ca. 500–490 BCE.
2. Dying warrior, from the west pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, ca. 500–490
BCE. Marble, approx. 5’ 2 1/2” long. Glyptothek, Munich.
3. Kritios Boy, from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 480 BCE. Marble, approx. 2’ 10” high.
Acropolis Museum, Athens.
4. Warrior, from the sea off Riace, Italy, ca. 460–450 BCE. Bronze, approx. 6’ 6” high. Archaeological
Museum, Reggio Calabria.
5. MYRON, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower). Roman marble copy after a bronze original of ca. 450 BCE,
5’ 1” high.
Terms:
1. Contrapposto
2. Temple Architecture
a. Frieze
b. Capital
c. Shaft
d. Base
e. Stylobate
f. Cornice
g. Pediment
h. Peristyle
3. Be able to identify/describe the following three orders of classical building and columns – 1.
Ionic, 2. Doric, 3. Corinthian
High Classical Period: 450-400 BCE
1. POLYKLEITOS, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer). Roman marble copy from Pompeii, Italy, after a bronze
original of ca. 450–440 BCE, 6’ 11” high.
2. IKTINOS and KALLIKRATES, Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Parthenos, Acropolis, Athens,
Greece, 447–438 BCE.
3. PHIDIAS, Athena Parthenos, in the cella of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 438 BCE.
Model of the lost statue, which was approx. 38’ tall.
4. Three goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite?), from the east pediment of the Parthenon,
Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 438–432 BCE. Marble, greatest height approx. 4’ 5”.
5. MNESIKLES, Propylaia, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, 437–432 BCE.
6. Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 421–405 BCE.
7. Caryatid from the south porch of the Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 421–405 BCE.
Marble, 7’ 7” high.
8. KALLIKRATES, Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 427–424 BCE.
9. Nike adjusting her sandal, from the south side of the parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike,
Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 410 BCE. Marble, approx. 3’ 6” high.
10. Grave Stele of Hegeso, Marble, 6’, c. 400.
11. ACHILLES PAINTER, Warrior taking leave of his wife (Attic white-ground lekythos), from Eretria,
Greece, ca. 440 BCE. Approx. 1’ 5” high.
Terms:
1. Phidias
2. Elgin Marbles
3. Pericles
Late Classical Period: 400-320 BCE
1. PRAXITELES, Aphrodite of Knidos. Roman marble copy after an original of ca. 350–340 BCE.
Approx. 6’ 8” high.
2. PRAXITELES, Hermes and the infant Dionysos, from the Temple of Hera, Olympia, Greece. Marble
copy after an original of ca. 340 BCE, approx. 7’ 1” high.
3. Grave Stele of a young hunter, found near the Ilissos River, Athens, Greece, ca. 340-330 BCE.
4. LYSIPPOS, Apoxyomenos (Scraper). Roman marble copy after a bronze original of ca. 330 BCE,
approx. 6’ 9” high.
5. LYSIPPOS, Weary Herakles (Farnese Herakles). Roman marble copy from Rome, Italy, signed by
GLYKON OF ATHENS, after a bronze original of ca. 320 BCE. Approx. 10 ‘ 5” high.
6. PHILOXENOS OF ERETRIA, Battle of Issus, ca. 310 BCE. Roman copy (Alexander Mosaic) from the
House of the Faun, Pompeii, Italy, late second or early first century BCE. Tessera mosaic, approx.
8’ 10” X 16’ 9”.
7. POLYKLEITOS THE YOUNGER, Theater, Epidauros, Greece, ca. 350 BCE.
Hellenistic Period: 320-30 BCE
1. Altar of Zeus, from Pergamon, Turkey, ca. 175 BCE.
2. EPIGONOS(?), Dying Gaul. Roman marble copy after a bronze original from Pergamon, Turkey, ca.
230–220 BCE, approx. 3’ 1/2” high.
3. Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace), from Samothrace, Greece, ca. 190 BCE. Marble,
figure approx. 8’ 1” high.
4. ALEXANDROS OF ANTIOCH-ON-THE-MEANDER, Aphrodite (Venus de Milo), from Melos, Greece,
ca. 150–125 BCE. Marble, approx. 6’ 7” high.
5. Seated boxer, from Rome, Italy, ca. 100–50 BCE. Bronze, approx. 4’ 2 1/2” high.
6. Old market woman, ca. 150–100 BCE. Marble, approx. 4’ 1/2” high.
7. ATHANADOROS, HAGESANDROS, and POLYDOROS OF RHODES, Laocoön and his sons, from
Rome, Italy, early first century CE Marble, approx. 7’ 10 1/2” high.
Terms:
1. Tesserae
2. Alexander the Great
3. Theaters – Orchestra and proscenium
Ceramics Chronology
1. Geometric
2. Orientalizing
a. Corinthian Ware
3. Black-Figure Ware
4. Bi-lingual Ware
5. Red-figure Ware
6. White Ground
Cultural Period
Geometric
Orientalizing
Archaic
Archaic
Archaic
Classic