GREECE TEST INFO

GREECE TEST INFO
#26 Athenian Agora
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Central hub of the city
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Place to gather
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Place to get news
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City center
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Government
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Selling of items
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Religious
#27 Anavysos Kouros (Kroisos Kouros)
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Kroisos “whom violent Ares
destroyed”
Grave marker
Apollo “figure” (ideal man)
Archaic (smile)
Staggered stance (from Egypt)
 infers what controposto looks
like…
Marble (originally painted)
#28 Peplos Kore from the Acropolis
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Priestess or a goddess
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Always clothed
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Archaic – smile
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Arm is broken
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Marble (originally painted)
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530 bce
#33 Niobides Krater
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Grave marker
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Apollo and Artemis killed Niobes’ kids
14– Niobe was bragging about # of
kids she had vs. Leto’s 2 kids….
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Story is the important part!!
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Classical Greek!
#34 Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
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Polykleitos artist –
Polykleitan stance
(controposto)
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Classical
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Roman marble copy
after a bronze original
#35 Acropolis
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Plan of the Acropolis
 Parthenon
 Erechteion
 Temple
of Athena Nike
 Propylaia
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Athens, Greece
#35 Acropolis
 Parthenon
 Worship
Athena
Parthenos (statue)
 Made the temple
wider
#35 Acropolis
 Frieze
on the
pediment
 Triangle
image
 Helios,
shaped
horses and
Dionysus
#35 Acropolis
 Temple
Nike
of Athena
#35 Acropolis
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Nike adjusting her
sandal
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Uses wet drapery
 Shows
 Clings
her figure
to her body as if
the clothing is wet
#35 Acropolis
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Pantheniac freize
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Located now in England
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Originally located on the
PARTHENON behind the
column on the top of
the main temple
#36 Grave Stele of Hegeso
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Upper class woman
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Gets some jewelry from
her servant
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Grave marker
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marble
#37 Winged Victory of Samothrace
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Nike of Samothrace
On a faux boat
Marble
Hellenistic
Celebrate the victory of a
naval battle
Currently in the Louvre,
France
#38 Great Altar of Zeus & Athena at
Pergamon
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Pergamon, Turkey
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Located currently in Berlin,
Germany
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Dismantled and reshaped it
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Temple to Zeus & Athena
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Story is the battle against the
giants – Gigantomachy
#38 Great Altar of Zeus & Athena at
Pergamon
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Athena kicking Giant’s butt
Nike is helping
Giants are getting killed
Gaia is trying to come out
of the earth to help her kids
Hellenistic – emotion &
violence
Marble
#38 Great Altar of Zeus & Athena at
Pergamon
Plan
of the
original site of
Pergamon
1 was the temple
Hellenistic
#40 Alexander Mosaic from the House
of the Faun
 Hellenistic
– violence
 Mosaic – little glass
pieces
 Floor
 Alex the Great &
Darius (Persian) killing
an Immortal
#41 Seated Boxer
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Bronze
Defeated – looking at his
opponent (who beat him
up)
Defeated by broken face,
nose, blood, hurt, scrapes
Defeated by the show of
emotion and pain
HELLENISTIC