Deck 5: Ancient Greece

Question 1

Which feature supports the hypothesis that the Lady of Auxerre is a kore rather than a goddess?

A) Headdress
B) Scale
C) Gesture
D) Inscription

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What component of the statue of Athena Parthenos made an overt reference to the Athenian victory over the Persians in 479 BC?

A) The shield with the image Xerxes
B) The winged Nike figure in her hand
C) Figures of Persian sailors lying at her feet
D) Her helmet with laurel leaves

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What would have been the original context of the Geometric krater?

A) An Egyptian tomb
B) A temple of Apollo
C) An Athenian cemetery
D) An Etruscan tomb

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In Greek art, what label is given to a statue showing the standing nude figure of a young man?

A) Ka
B) Kouros
C) Stele
D) Kore

Question 5

What style of Greek vase painting replaced the black-figure style?

A) Geometric style
B) Corinthian animal style
C) White-ground technique
D) Red-figure style

Question 6

What historical event ushered in the beginning of the Classical period?

A) The death of Alexander the Great
B) The Greek conquest of Egypt
C) The defeat of the Persians
D) The first Greek voyage to Italy

Question 7

Which Greek colony in Egypt brought the Greeks into direct contact with Egyptian monumental architecture?

A) Syracuse
B) Thebes
C) Alexandria
D) Naukratis

Question 8

What is the name of the sculpture in which Praxiteles took the unprecedented step of representing a female nude?

A) Nike of Samothrace
B) Erechtheion caryatid
C) Aphrodite of Knidos
D) Stele of Hegeso

Question 9

The gigantomachy of the Altar of Zeus at Pergamon alludes to a victory of the Pergamenes over which group in the third century BCE?

A) Romans
B) Persians
C) Sasanians
D) Gauls

Question 10

What is the effect of the drapery worn by the three goddesses in the Parthenon east pediment?

A) Hangs flat and heavy, disguising their contours
B) Reveals and conceals the forms of their bodies
C) Recalls the style and mood of the Archaic period
D) Loses its own shape yet reveals theirs

Question 11

What do scholars mostly agree is the subject of the lengthy Ionic frieze on the Parthenon?

A) The birth of Athena
B) The Panathenaic procession
C) The battle of the Persians and Athenians
D) The formation of the universe

Question 12

Which statue is the earliest known example of the use of contrapposto in sculpture?

A) Aphrodite of Knidos
B) Diskobolos
C) Doryphoros
D) Kritios Boy

Question 13

What technique did the sculptor Polykleitos use in his Doryphoros to impose order on human movement?

A) Associated emotion with action
B) Extended the figure into the surrounding space
C) Created a system of cross-balances
D) Used subtle stone projections for support

Question 14

What cultural influence is apparent in the rigidly frontal standing pose of Archaic male statues?

A) Minoan
B) Cycladic
C) Egyptian
D) Hellenistic

Question 15

What new facet is introduced to Greek sculpture in the Hellenistic image of Athena battling Alkyoneos on the Altar of Zeus?

A) Coloristic properties
B) Broader subject matter
C) Emotional intensity
D) Sense of good versus evil

Question 16

What advance is evident in the pedimental sculptures of the Temple of Aphaia on Aegina?

A) First appearance of women in temple sculpture
B) Introduction of unified theme and consistent scale
C) Earliest-known scene of the interaction of gods and men
D) Introduction of composite creatures to Greek mythology

Question 17

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Who is usually given credit for the invention of the red-figure technique, shown here?

A) Exekias
B) Brygos Painter
C) Andokides Painter
D) Euthymides

Question 18

What term describes the female statue column used as an architectural support on the Erechtheion?

A) Kore
B) Caryatid
C) Gorgoneion
D) Pillar

Question 19

In its lack of a pediment and a roof, the Temple of Apollo at Didyma reflects what ability of Hellenistic architecture?

A) To imitate temple treasuries
B) To be surprising and dramatic
C) To maintain small scale
D) To exactly copy the Parthenon

Question 20

What was notable about the depiction of Greeks on the Ionic frieze of the Parthenon?

A) The Athenians were shown as allies of the Spartans.
B) The citizens appeared to be wearing the costumes of deities.
C) It shows the earliest-known interaction between gods and men.
D) No human event had been depicted on a Greek temple previously.

Question 21

The volute was a characteristic detail of which type of Greek column capital?

A) Doric
B) Corinthian
C) Ionic
D) Acanthus

Question 22

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What scene is represented on this Athenian white-ground lekythos by the Achilles Painter?

A) Lady performing her morning toilette
B) Young men lounging at a symposium
C) The meeting of Paris and Helen
D) Warrior taking leave of his wife

Question 23

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What materials made up the real statue of Athena Parthenos?

A) Bronze and ivory
B) Gold and marble
C) Gold and painted clay
D) Gold and ivory

Question 24

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What is the subject of this statue?

A) Dying Greek
B) Dying Athenian
C) Dying Pergamene
D) Dying Gaul

Question 25

Which of the following was not built on the Athenian Acropolis?

A) Erechtheion
B) Parthenon
C) Propylaia
D) Stoa of Attalos

Question 26

Which monument provides information about the lives of women in Greek society?

A) The Tomb of the Diver
B) The Hegeso stele
C) The Athena Parthenos
D) The Siphnian Treasury

Question 27

Who appears in human form on the Ionic frieze of the Parthenon?

A) City-states
B) Egyptian pantheon
C) Greek gods
D) Roman ancestor spirits

Question 28

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What is the name and location of this monument?

A) Temple of Apollo at Didyma
B) Basilica at Paestum
C) Temple of Aphaia on Aegina
D) Temple of Zeus at Olympia

Question 29

What historical battle appears in mythological disguise on the Altar of Zeus at Pergamon?

A) King Attalos I over the Romans
B) Spartans over the Athenians
C) Alexander the Great over the Persians
D) King Attalos I over the Gauls

Question 30

What is the subject of the tomb painting preserved at Vergina?

A) Amazonomachy
B) Hades abducting Persephone
C) Battle of Issus
D) Birth of Athena

Question 31

Where is the first known exterior use of a Corinthian column?

A) Tholos at Delphi
B) Temple of Athena Nike
C) Choragic Monument of Lysicrates
D) Mausoleum of Halikarnassos

Question 32

In which find context have the majority of well-preserved Greek vases been discovered?

A) Greek cist graves
B) Egyptian mastabas
C) Macedonian tombs
D) Etruscan tombs

Question 33

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What explains the markings on this statue?

A) Modern archaeologists added color during conservation work.
B) The soil where it was buried caused discoloration of the marble.
C) Liquid dedications were poured onto the statue.
D) Greek marble statues bore much painted decoration.

Question 34

Which hero is credited with the founding of the Olympic Games and appears in much of the art of that sanctuary?

A) Theseus
B) Achilles
C) Herakles
D) Odysseus

Question 35

Which Greek city had a vase painting tradition that rivaled the Athenian workshops?

A) Sparta
B) Delphi
C) Mycenae
D) Corinth

Question 36

What technique was used to create the Charioteer of Delphi ?

A) Subtractive relief carving
B) Lost-wax method of bronze casting
C) Lost-wax method of gold working
D) Encaustic technique

Question 37

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What is the name of the individual depicted in this sculpture?

A) Apollo
B) Hermes
C) Odysseus
D) Zeus

Question 38

What was the function of one of the side chambers of the Propylaia on the Athenian Acropolis?

A) Hospital
B) Picture gallery
C) Council chamber
D) Guest house

Question 39

Which period of Greek art witnessed a dramatic redefinition of portraiture?

A) Geometric
B) Hellenistic
C) Archaic
D) Classical

Question 40

Who are the painter and potter of the François Vase ?

A) Exekias and Euphronios
B) Kleitias and Ergotimos
C) Achilles Painter and Brygos
D) Kleitias and Kroisos

Question 41

What aspect of Praxiteles's statue of Aphrodite of Knidos caused controversy in its day?

A) Style
B) Material
C) Nudity
D) Gesture

Question 42

Which was the costliest sculptural component of the Athenian Parthenon?

A) The east and east pediments
B) The painted Ionic frieze
C) Statue of Athena Parthenos
D) The metopes

Question 43

What is the best-known example of Hippodamian city planning?

A) Pergamon
B) Priene
C) Sparta
D) Pella

Question 44

Triglyphs and metopes were elements of Greek temples of which type?

A) Ionic
B) Doric
C) Corinthian
D) Circular

Question 45

Which innovation in sculpture separates Archaic from Classical statuary?

A) Bronze material
B) Twisting torso
C) Weight shift
D) Heraldic pose

Question 46

What formed the original base of the Nike of Samothrace?

A) Pyramid
B) Corinthian column
C) Altar
D) Ship's prow

Question 47

The Temple of Apollo at Didyma is located in which modern country?

A) Greece
B) Italy
C) Jordan
D) Turkey

Question 48

Which part of the Greek temple housed the statue of the deity?

A) Pronaos
B) Stylobate
C) Opisthodomos
D) Cella

Question 49

Which legendary artist furnishes the name for a type of Greek Geometric sculpture?

A) Apollo
B) Nestor
C) Daedalus
D) Minos

Question 50

The statue group of Laocoön and his sons shows a scene from which work?

A) Homer's Iliad
B) Vergil's Aeneid
C) Plato's Republic
D) The Epic of Gilgamesh