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| a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece |
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| Coined by Evans after the mythic "king" Minos. Minos was associated in Greek myth with the labyrinth, which Evans identified as the site at Knossos. |
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| A legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. |
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| A city mound. When a city begins to fall down, its residents knock down the walls and build on top of the rubble. Over time the level on which the city is built rises on this mound or tel. |
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| a German archaeologist, an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer, and an important excavator of Troy and of the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns, lending material weight to Homer's Iliad as reflecting historical events. |
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| a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete |
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| A mythical king of Crete whose palace was at Knossos |
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| the location of Troy, famous city of Greek legend, on the northwestern corner of Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey |
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| A monstrous feminine creature whose appearance would turn anyone who laid eyes upon it to stone. |
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| An open space in the roof that allowed light deep into the palace. |
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| Fertility ritual in which Minoans would jump or vault over a bull. |
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| Throne room; a large hall with a central hearth and a throne. |
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| A stone masonry unit, which has been squared and shaped for precise fit with other stones. |
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| a circular building with a conical or vaulted roof and with or without a peristyle, or surrounding colonnade |
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| part of a group of islands known as the Cyclades in the Mediterranean modern day Santorini |
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| Minoan ancient Theran town |
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| is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, |
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| A fortress for protecting a town, sometimes incorporating a castle. |
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| a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with huge limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and no use of mortar. |
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| Style of painted pottery with freeform designs associated with the palace culture that flourished on Crete during the Middle Minoan period from the island of Thera. |
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| A technique of metalworking where a design is shaped out of a malleable metal such as gold by hammering on the reverse side of it. |
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| high city; city on the edge |
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| Free standing female figures, clothed. |
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| A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn |
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| Spanish fashion designer famous for creating fine silk pleated fabric. |
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| figural depictions in red color on a black background |
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| black figures on a red background |
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| a cathedral that is home to the 4 bronze Greek horses, |
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| The wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain or—in the Ionic or Corinthian order—decorated with bas-reliefs. |
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| Greek, “picture gallery”; a room or building for the exhibition of paintings on wooden panels. |
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| an ornament in a Doric frieze, consisting of a projecting block having three parallel vertical channels on its face |
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| A square panel between triglyphs on a Doric frieze, often decorated with a relief. |
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| a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure (entablature), |
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| Horizontal beam resting on the columns of the entablature. |
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| Monumental gateway that serves as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. |
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| a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head |
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| a sculpted male figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on his head |
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| An ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece. |
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| an Athenian sculptor, the son of Charmides, and is generally acknowledged as the greatest ancient Greek sculptor and instigator of the classical style of the 5th and 4th centuries BC |
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| an Athenian sculptor from the mid-fifth century BC |
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| Was a Greek sculptor in bronze of the fifth and the early fourth century BC. |
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| Most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue. |
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| The use of scale and mathematical proportions in order to create the perfectly proportioned figure |
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| an Italian term meaning "counterpoise" used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs. |
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| a traditional art concept in Ancient Greek sculpture and Roman sculpture where the figure's body and posture is depicted like a sinuous or serpentine "S" |
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| A film on the surface of bronze or similar metals (produced by oxidation over a long period); a sheen on wooden furniture produced by age, wear, and polishing; or any such acquired change of a surface through age and exposure. |
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| the science of the structure and development of languages [Greek philologia love of language] |
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| An innovation in the embellishment of Cretan pottery, developed around 1500 BCE and characterized by the depiction of octopuses and other sea creatures. |
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| The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint. |
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| one of two linear scripts used in ancient Crete discovered by Arthur Evans. |
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| A script that was used for writing Mycenaean, an early form of Greek discovered by Arthur Evans. |
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| Part of a festival in honor of Athena known as the Panathenaea that was held every year in ancient Athens. The procession was held on the last day of the festival, and involved the ritual bringing of a new peplos, or cloak, to the ceremonial statue of Athena. Every fourth year, during the Grand Panathenaea, a giant peplos was presented to Athena inside the Parthenon. Every other year, the procession culminated with the presentation of a peplos to the Athena statue inside the Erechtheum. |
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| over the top flawless and impossibly symmetrical sculptures were created in this period. |
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| heroicly proportioned statues were created in this "golden age" and were intended to compare themselves to gods. |
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| beginnings of realistic depictions of humans and (no coincidence) monumental stone sculptures. Period of kore/korous statues |
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700-625 BCE |
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| In this period, elements from other civilizations began to creep into Greek art. The elements were those of the Near East. |
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| • Pottery decoration moved beyond simple shapes to also include animals and humans. Everything, however, was rendered with the use of simple shapes |
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| Free standing figures depicting male youths usually naked. |
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