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Fine Arts Semester Exam
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12/13/2005

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Acropolis
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The high and beautiful arrangement of buildings in Athens that is crowned by the Parthenon.
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Aeschylus
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First great tradegy writer of Classical Greece.
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Alexandria
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The greatest city (found in Egypt) during the Hellenistic Age under King Ptolemy.
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Amarna
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New form of art developed in Akhenaton's new capital at Tel el-Amarna.
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Apollo
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Greek god of intellect, prophecy, music, and medicine.
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Akhenaton
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Egyptian pharoah who attempted to change Egypts religion to monotheistic and moved the capital to Tel el-Amarna.
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Aristophanes
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Great Greek author of comedies.
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Aristotle
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Student of Plato who said taht perfect forms were present in the world around us. Lyceum.
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Augustus
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First emperor of Rome, was Octaivious, and under him Rome thrived.
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Baylon
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Hammuraib's city that was successful and unified until 1550 BC when it was taken over by the Kassites.
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Capital
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Head of a Column
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Caryatids
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Female statues that served as columns on the Erecheum in Athens.
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Constatinople
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Became the new capital of imperial Rome that, was the beginning of the end, and moved by the emporer Constantine.
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476 AD
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Rome fell when the last emporer (augustulus) died.
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1453 AD
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Constantinople fell
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Corinthean
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Type of capital that is bell shaped.
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Cuneiform
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First form of writing using wedge shapes during the Summerian Age.
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Dionysus
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God of wine and pleasure for whon plays were dedicated.
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Doric
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Simplest and grandest of all Greek or Roman columns.
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Epicureanism
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School of Roman philosophy that believed the goal of all human action is pleasure.
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Forum
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Greek meeting place for the Senate of general assemblies.
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Herodotus
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First historian who wrote History of the Persian Wars. He believed the Persians lost the war because they were morally wrong.
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Gilgamesh
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Summerian king who starred as the protagonist in the first great work of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh.
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Hamartia
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Greek word for flaw
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Hellenistic Age
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Followed the Roman Age and continued many of Roman traditions.
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Hieroglyphics
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Ancient Egyptian writing.
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Homer
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First great author who wrote the Iliad and Odessey.
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Hubris
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Exsessive Ambition
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Imhotep
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First archetictect to come up with the concept of funerary pyramids. Designed one for Zoser.
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Ionic
Definition
More eloborate type of Greek column.
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Kourus
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Free standing, nude, male statue in early Greece.
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Knossus
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Amazing structure used under King Minos that was excavated in 1894 by Athur Miller. Where the myth of the maze and the Minotaur came about.
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Pantheon
Definition
Roman buidling that was made with a huge dome.
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Parthenon
Definition
Most fantastic of all buildings on the Acropolis that served as a temple to Athena.
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Pergumum
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Greatest Asian city and learning center during the Classical Greek reign.
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Pericles
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Hero in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War; was Athenian; used money from the Delian League; sybolizes the Golden Age of Greece.
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Plato
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Best student of Socrates who recorded all his works; believed in the Theory of Forms.
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Polis
Definition
Greek city-state.
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Sappho
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First female poet who wrote about her own experiences.
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Socrates
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First great Greek phisopher who tauoght though questions, did not record any of his treachings, and was put to death.
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Summer
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First civilization that was found in the Fertile Crecsent of Mesopotamia; responsible for writing, first epic, and Semetic lanuage.
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Tholos
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Circular building
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Thucydides
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Author of History of Ploponnesian Wars who was unbias and an Athenian.
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Vergil
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Roman author who speant the last ten years of his life in order to write the Aeneid which would honor Rome/Augustus.
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Willendorf
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Earliest statues or work of visual art that showed a women with enlargened the female body's sexual organs.
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Ziggurats
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The chief buildings of Mesopotamian civilizations that were consturctedusing large brick platforms. Probably had religous significance.
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