Deck 2: Ancient Greece

Question 1

The _____ was the central feature of the palace at Knossos.

A) ​fortifications wall
B) large rectangular court​
C) outdoor theater​
D) ​entrance gate

Answer 1

large rectangular court​

Question 2

The use of dark silhouettes against a cream-colored background typifies the decoration of _____ ceramic pots.

A) ​Greek red-figure
B) Minoan​
C) Mycenaean​
D) Cycladic​

Answer 2

Minoan​

Question 3

Why do some scholars believe Snake Goddess is a deity?

A) ​She displays power over animals.
B) She wears the Minoan goddess dress.​
C) She is posed frontally.​
D) She was found in a temple.​

Answer 3

​She displays power over animals.

Question 4

_____ provided illumination and ventilation in the palace at Knossos.

A) ​Light and air wells
B) Corbeled vaults​
C) A timber framework​
D) The Lion Gate​

Question 5

Minoan columns are distinguished by a _____.

A) ​tapering shape and bulbous capitals
B) pronounced swelling in the center​
C) bud-shaped capitals​
D) bull-shaped capitals​

Question 6

_____ was the sculptor who designed the reliefs and sculptures for the Parthenon.

A) ​Phidias
B) Exekias​
C) Epigonos​
D) Hegeso​

Question 7

The positioning of the feet of the figurine of a woman from Syros suggests that it must have been placed lying down in a _____.

A) ​home
B) grave​
C) cave​
D) citadel​

Question 8

Cycladic figures, such as the woman from Syros, are rendered _____.

A) ​with bulbous circular forms
B) naturalistically​
C) as portraits​
D) in a highly schematic manner​

Question 9

Minoan art takes its name from _____.

A) ​a Minoan city
B) ​the legendary King Minos
C) ​the Homeric epics
D) ​Socrates

Question 10

Well-preserved Minoan frescoes were found at _____.

A) ​Sparta
B) Athens​
C) Tiryns​
D) Akrotiri​

Question 11

_____ did not play a role in public or political life, but were confined to the home.

A) ​Philosophers
B) Athenian leaders​
C) Land-holding males​
D) Greek women​

Question 12

The Greeks created the concept of _____, or rule by the people.

A) ​polis
B) a canon​
C) democracy​
D) Hellenic​

Question 13

Mycenaean masonry is called Cyclopean because of its _____.

A) ​color
B) size​
C) texture​
D) pattern​

Question 14

Minoan painting introduced the first _____.

A) ​battle scene
B) pure landscape​
C) representations of animals​
D) ruler portraits​

Question 15

The earliest dated Aegean artworks came from _____.

A) ​the Cyclades
B) Tiryns​
C) Athens​
D) Crete​

Question 16

Most early Cycladic sculptures represent _____.

A) ​bison
B) males​
C) women​
D) composite creatures​

Question 17

The construction of _____ characterize the building efforts on Crete in the early centuries of the second millennium.

A) ​theaters
B) ​beehive tombs
C) ​architectural complexes
D) ​cyclopean masonry walls

Question 18

The dimensions of the Parthenon were calculated on _____.

A) ​the Temple of Athena Nike
B) a fixed proportional scheme​
C) the dimensions of earlier temples​
D) theater designs​

Question 19

Mycenaean citadels, such as those at Mycenae and Tiryns, we famous in antiquity for their _____.

A) ​murals
B) towers​
C) fortification walls​
D) domes​

Question 20

Along with the patron goddess of Athens, Athena, the Parthenon celebrated the _____.

A) ​Olympian deities
B) Spartans​
C) ​Macedonians
D) ​Athenian people

Question 21

Greek vase painting of the _____ consisted mainly of abstract motifs.

A) ​Geometric age
B) Orienalizing period​
C) Hellenistic age​
D) Pergamenes​

Question 22

The tholos at Mycenae was a _____.

A) ​throne room
B) temple​
C) ​treasury
D) ​tomb chamber

Question 23

The defeat of the Persians is the historical event that marked the beginning of the _____ age.

A) ​classical
B) Minoan​
C) Hellenistic​
D) Dark​

Question 24

The so-called Archaic smile likely signified _____.

A) ​life
B) joy​
C) personality​
D) perfection​

Question 25

_____ was the master of the black-figure technique.

A) ​Philoxenos of Eretria
B) Exekias​
C) Kroisos​
D) Daedelus​

Question 26

How is the Parthenon imperfect?

A) ​The columns are not perpendicular to the ground.
B) The pediments are not triangular.​
C) The cella is not square.​
D) The stylobate is not straight.​

Question 27

The depopulation and poverty that followed the fall of the Mycenaeans is called the _____.

A) ​Doric period
B) Dark Age of Greece​
C) Golden Age of the Minoans​
D) Hellenistic era​

Question 28

Greek temples reveal the influence of _____.

A) ​Minoan palace plans
B) Neolithic shrines​
C) Egyptian columnar halls​
D) Persian citadels​

Question 29

Which Athenian politician reconstructed the Athenian Acropolis?

A) ​Pausanius
B) Polykleitos​
C) Xerxes​
D) Pericles​

Question 30

One of the primary purposes for temples was to house an image of a deity called _____.

A) ​an atlantid
B) a caryatid​
C) a kouros​
D) a cult statue​

Question 31

Following the Peloponnesian war and the alienation and disillusionment that followed, Late Classical artists focused on _____.

A) ​community values
B) mathematical perfection​
C) real-world appearances​
D) Polykleitos's Canon​

Question 32

At the time of the Trojan wars, wealthy Mycenaeans were buried in _____.

A) ​ceramic urns
B) sarcophagi​
C) tholos tombs​
D) shaft graves​

Question 33

_____ were among the artifacts found in the shaft graves at Grave Circle A.

A) ​statues of deities
B) ceramic vessels​
C) lyres​
D) beaten gold masks​

Question 34

Cantilevered rows of stone formed a _____ above the lintel of the Lion Gate at Mycenae.

A) ​corbeled arch
B) ​barrel vault
C) ​pattern of vines
D) ​ogee

Question 35

_____ strongly influenced the pose of early Greek kouros figures.

A) ​Minoan portraits
B) Egyptian statues​
C) Persian art​
D) Snake goddesses​

Question 36

In the Archaic period, ceramic painters introduced a new painting technique called _____.

A) ​white-ground painting
B) kamares ware​
C) black-figure painting​
D) the Orientalizing style​

Question 37

The Altar of Zeus celebrates the _____.

A) ​victory of Attalos I over the Gauls
B) life of Alexander the Great​
C) birth of Zeus​
D) lapiths' defeat of the centaurs​

Question 38

The Mycenaean funerary mask was one of the first attempts at _____ by Greek artists.

A) ​a life-sized human face
B) repoussé​
C) rendering the human face​
D) metalwork​

Question 39

The early Greek style of representing statues with triangular heads and is called the _____ style.

A) ​canon
B) Kroisos​
C) daedelic​
D) Doryphoros​

Question 40

Which sculpture employs contrapposto?

A) ​Kroisos
B) Kritios Boy​
C) Lady of Auxerre​
D) Peplos Kore​

Question 41

Funds from the _____ were used to finance Pericles's rebuilding of the Akropolis.

A) ​Delian League
B) Peloponnesian war​
C) Battle of Actium​
D) Athenian senate​

Question 42

Describe the possible functions served by the architectural complexes on Crete.

Question 43

Classical statues departed from the Archaic by abandoning _____.

A) ​painted features
B) the Egyptian pose​
C) naturalism​
D) nudity​

Question 44

The cultural centers of the Hellenistic period were _____.

A) ​court cities of Alexander's successor
B) ​Athens and Sparta
C) ​Macedonia
D) ​Greek colonies in Italy

Question 45

How do the themes portrayed on the Parthenon sculptures and reliefs allude to the Greek victory over the Persians?

Question 46

The subject of the Parthhenon's Ionic frieze is the _____.

A) ​extinction of the Amazons
B) battle between the gods and giants​
C) the Persian war​
D) Panathenaic procession​

Question 47

On the Stele of Hegeso, the deceased is represented ______.

A) ​teaching her children
B) taking leave of her husband​
C) with her parents​
D) in a domestic setting​

Question 48

The irregular form of the Erectheion was necessitated by its _____.

A) ​function of housing several sacred sites
B) dedication to Zeus and Hera​
C) placement next to the Parthenon​
D) multistory form​

Question 49

Describe how the civilizations of the Aegean are named.

Question 50

Polykleitos created the _____ to accompany a treatise on the ideal statue of a nude male warrior or athlete.

A) ​Dying Gaul
B) Centauromachy​
C) Doryphoros​
D) Dying Warrior​

Question 51

The white-ground technique was used almost exclusively on _____.

A) ​amphora
B) kraters​
C) lekythoi​
D) mosaic pavements​

Question 52

What made the Parthenon a "perfect temple"?

Question 53

The fusion of Doric and Ionic elements in the Parthenon may reflect the Athenian belief that _____.

A) ​Persia would invade Greece
B) they were the leaders of the Greeks​
C) eastern Greeks were superior architects​
D) there should be a new Greek order​

Question 54

Unlike their Early Classical predecessors, Late Classical artists focused on _____.

A) ​community values
B) mathematical perfection​
C) real-world appearances​
D) Polykleitos's canon​

Question 55

Large bronze sculptures were created using the _____ technique.

A) ​bas relief
B) reduction​
C) cloisonné​
D) lost wax​

Question 56

Describe the relationship between Mycenaean funerary masks and Egyptian art.

Question 57

Unlike Classical sculptors, Hellenistic artists created _____.

A) ​monumental images
B) a variety of physical types​
C) idealized figures​
D) relief and full-round sculpture​

Question 58

_____ took the unprecedented step of representing the goddess Aphrodite nude.

A) ​Epigonos
B) Praxiteles​
C) Euphronios​
D) Lysippos​

Question 59

What are some of the characteristic architectural features of the palace at Knossos?

Question 60

The artist Phidias treated the floor of the Parthenon's pediment as _____.

A) ​an imitation of the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina
B) a ground line for life-size figures​
C) a horizon line through which figures could pass​
D) a shallow ledge supporting relief sculptures​

Question 61

Which Ionic features appear on the Parthenon, and what theories explain why the Doric and Ionic orders were blended in this building?

Question 62

What strides did these artists make in increasing the sense of illusionism on Greek vessels?

Question 63

Describe Exekias's skill as a black-figure painter.

Question 64

Although these images both date to the Archaic period, how are they different?

Question 65

Why does the Geometric krater mark a turning point in the history of Greek art?

Question 66

Which features identify this temple as early Archaic? What factors might explain its unusual or transitional features?

Question 67

Identify the civilization that produced this object, and describe its distinctive features.

Question 68

What are the characteristics of the daedelic style in early Archaic sculpture?

Question 69

Describe how these are indicative of the development of the Doric order in the Archaic period.

Question 70

What reasons did Greek vase painters have for signing their names?

Question 71

Identify the primary differences between the Doric and Ionic orders.

Question 72

Where did Greeks typically place architectural sculpture?

Question 73

How were the subjects of the Parthenon's pediments connected to the temple's function?

Question 74

What is the name of the style applied to this sculpture, and what are the characteristic features of this style?

Question 75

How were Geometric vases, such as the funerary krater, decorated?

Question 76

What makes Minoan figures easy to distinguish from Egyptian and Mesopotamian figures?

Question 77

What features suggest that the Minoan Snake Goddess is a deity?

Question 78

Why do these appear to come from different eras?

Question 79

What aspects of the imagery reveal that Greek artists were experimenting with placing figures in the pediment?

Question 80

Although these images both date to the Archaic period, how are they different?