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All-purpose storage jar
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Amphora
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Primary difference of Egyptian art and Greek art
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Striking stylistic changes over a short period of time (Greek)
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Greek gods were conceptualized more like ___ than those of earlier peoples
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Humans
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Greek sites thought to be sacred to one or more gods
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Sanctuaries
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Name 8 things that might be found at a sanctuary
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AltarSacred natural object (tree/rock)TempleTreasuryMonuments/statuesHousing for priestsDance floor/theatreStadium
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Name a chief difference between Egyptian and Greek architecture
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Greeks treat each building as an individual and integral part of its landscape.
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Geometric period: Place? Time? Medium?
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Athens, 900-700 bc, ceramics
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Stylized flower forms on light background
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Rosettes
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Dark shapes over light buff ceramics define silhouettes
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Black-figure technique
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Where do motifs of the "Orientalizing period" come from?
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Near East, Asia Minor, and Egypt
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Where did the "Orientalizing" style begin?
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Corinth, 650 bce
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This is a wide mouthed Corinthian pitcher from the orientalizing period
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Olpe
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Which two prominent writers belonged to Greece's "archaic" period?
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Sappho and Aesop
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Columned Athenian pavillion open on three sides
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Stoa
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Columns with the form of women, clothed in flowing garments
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Caryatids (used in the temple of the siphnians)
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