A circular building covered by a pyramid of cone-shaped roof.

1) Tholos at Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia, Delphi

2) Tend to be elegant and more expensive to contrcut than rectangular buildings

3) Relatively few examples remain today

The cross-balancing of supporting and free elements in a figure. One shoulder lower down from the other, and one hip raised higher than the other

1) Kritian Boy

2) Warrior Riace Bronzes

3)Doryphoros by Polykleitos

The citadel of an ancient Greek city, located at its highest point. 

1) Athenian Acropolis

2) Pergamene Acropolis

3) Acropolis literally means "high city"

A low wall at the edge of a balcony, bridge, roof or other place from which there is a steep drop.

1) Parapet of Athena Nike

2) Parapets of Tholos at Delphi - 2 different size, led to discussion about what the roof looked like.

3) Built for safety

A copy or reproduction of a work of art.

1) Doryphoros by Polykleitos

2) Hermes and the Infant Dionysus by Praxiteles

3) Apoxyomenos by Lyssipos

This type of art was often theatrical, with complex, twisting poses, and exaggerated expressions in the face. 

1) Laocoon

2) Nike of Samothrace

3) Frieze of the Altar of Zeus at Pergamon

Artists' attempt to portray the world as they saw it.

1) Charioteer of Delphi

2) Garden Scene

3) Initiation Rites of the Cult of Bacchus (?)

A process in art through which artists strive to make their forms and figures attain perfection, based on pervading cultural values and/or their own mental image of beauty.

1) Doryphoros by Polykleitos

2) Apoxyomenos by Lysippos

In architecture, a semicircular niche. On a small scale, often used as decoration, whereas larger exedrae can form interior spaces.

1) Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina

A series of arches, carried by columns or piers and supporting a common wall or lintel. 

1) Colosseum, Rome

2) Pont du Gard, Nimes

3) Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina

A row of columns, supporting a straight lintel (as in a porch) or a series of arches (arcade)

1) Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina

2) Parthenon

3) Basilica Ulpia, Rome

an artificial, stonelike material used for various structural purposes, made by mixing cement and various aggregates, as sand, pebbles, gravel, or shale, with water and allowing the mixture to harden.

Examples of concrete construction:

1) Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina

2) Pont du Gard, Nimes

3) Colosseum, Rome

In architecture, the exterior facing of a building, often in decorative patterns of fine stone or brick.

1) Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina

2) Used over concrete because it absorbed moisture

The principal interior room at the center of a Greek or Roman temple within which the cult statue was usually housed.

1) Temple to Portunus, Forum Boarium

2) Temple of Athena Nike

3) Parthenn

The lower part of a wall, differentiated in some way (by a molding or different coloring or paneling) from the upper section.

1) Ara Pacis

2) Initiation Rites of the Cult of Bacchus (?)

A column attached to a wall.

1) Temple of Portunus in Rome

2) Maison Carre, Nimes

3) Uniquely Roman feature

A term used to describe any building or room that is surrounded by a single row of columns. 

1) Temple of Portunus, Rome

2) Peristyle Garden, House of Vettii, Pompeii

3) Temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens is an example of dipteral plan - meaning the room is surrounded by two rows of columns

True to life. A style in which the artists concern themselves with capturing the exact likeness of a person, usually by rendering their visible details in a finely executed, meticulous manner.

1) Pompey the Great

2) Julius Caesar

3) Middle Aged Flavian Woman

4) Vespasian

An unroofed interior courtyard or room in a Roman house, sometimes having a pool or garden, sometimes surrounded by columns.

1) Peristyle Garden, House of the Vettii, Pompeii

A surrounding colonnade in Greek architecture. A peristyle building is surrounded on the exterior by a colonnade.

1) Parthenon

2) Peristyle Garden, House of the Vettii, Pompeii

3) Temple to Portuns, Forum Boarium

In architecture, a projecting roof or porch supported by columns, often marking an entrance.

1) Temple of Portunus, Forum Boarium

2) Maison Carree, Nimes

3) Propylaea

A painting or relief sculpture of circular shape

1)Young Woman Writing

2) Septimius Severus and Family, From Fayum

3) Coins, Julius Caesar

 Having a portico on the front with the columns in front of the antae.

1) Temple of Athena Nike

2) Parthenon

3) Erechtheion

 A large, open room at the side of the peristyle farthest from the main entrance in an ancient Roman house.

1) Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii

2) House of the Vettii, Pompeii

A recessed decorative panel that is used to reduce the weight of and to decorate ceilings of vaults. 

1) Pantheon

In architecture, a circular opening. Oculi are usually found either as windows or at the apex of a dome. When at the top of a dome, an oculus is either open to the sky or covered by a decorative exterior lantern.

1) Dome of the Parthenon

The elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.

1) Arch of Titus

An arch built to depict the victory of a battle.

1) Part architecture, part sculpture.

1) Arch of Titus, Rome