Exam 21: The Prehistoric and Ancient Mediterranean

Match the structure with the culture that made it: -Palace of Knossos

The Parthenon in Athens used to house a huge gold-and-ivory statue of:

The cyclical flooding of the Nile can be compared to the Egyptian belief in rebirth after death.

Match the structure with the culture that made it: -Great Pyramid

Dionysus was the ancient Greek god of ________.

The Parthenon that still stands today in Athens was built after the city was invaded in 480/479 BCE by the:

Compare and contrast the depiction of drapery in the statue of a Roman with busts of his ancestors (3.1.32),and the Dionysiac frieze from Pompeii (3.1.33).How has each artist created the illusion of the weight and texture of draped material? In which medium,marble or fresco painting,do you think it is more difficult to create realistic drapery?

In black-figure painting on Greek pots,the background is ________.

We have found that many Roman houses in Pompeii had ________ covering the walls.

Discuss the conventions that ancient artists used to differentiate between male and female figures (for example,the way that the female acrobats in the Minoan Bull-Leapers fresco (3.1.7)have lighter skin than the males)using images from the textbook.Of these conventions,which are derived from purely physical differences between the sexes,and which might have been influenced by social or cultural expectations? What can these artworks tell us about the roles of ancient men and women? How successful were ancient artists at depicting the two sexes?

The Egyptians took a haphazard approach to building the pyramids,suggesting that they did not have a strong understanding of math and geometry.

Prehistoric female figurines that refer to reproduction are called fertility figures.