Exam 5: Ancient Greece

The ____ is the historical event that ushered in the beginning of the Classical period.

Who is usually given credit for the invention of the red-figure technique as seen in the amphora of "Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game"?

The drapery worn by the three goddesses on the Parthenon is characterized as ____.

What scene is represented on the Attic white-ground lekythos painted by the so-called Achilles Painter?

One indication that the lady of Auxerre may be a kore is ____.

Scholars mostly agree that the Ionic frieze on the Parthenon is a representation of the ____.

The Corinthian black-figure amphora with animal friezes demonstrates the Greek fascination with ____.

The earliest known example of the use of contrapposto is the sculpture known as the ____.

One of the rooms of the Propylaia reportedly functioned as a ____.

The rigidly frontal pose of archaic statues reflects the influence of ____.

____ was a Greek colony in Egypt that brought the Greeks into direct contact with Egyptian monumental architecture.

In the Archaic period,the black-figure style of vase painting was replaced by the ____ style.

The Hellenistic image of Athena battling Alkyoneos on the Altar of Zeus has ____ not found in earlier sculpture.

In the gigantomachy of the Altar of Zeus,Pergamon alludes to a victory of the Pergamenes over the ____ in the third century BCE.

In the statue of Athena Parthenos,what did she hold that made an overt reference to the Athenian victory over the Persians in 479 BC?

In contrast to earlier pediments,the pedimental sculptures of the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina feature ____.

Evident in the absence of a pediment and a roof,the Temple of Apollo,Didyma,reflected the ability of Hellenistic architecture to ____.

The depiction of Greeks on the Ionic frieze of the Parthenon was exceptional because ____.

The sculptor Polykleitos imposed order on human movement in his Doryphoros by ____.

The Geometric krater would most likely be found in which of the following?