Greek and Hellenistic Art

Vocabulary

Acropolis

Black figure, red figure, white-ground

Caryatid

Centaur

Contrapposto

Doric and Ionic orders

Elgin Marbles

Entablature

Flute or fluting

Foreshortening

Frieze

Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic styles

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

Kouros, Kore

Pediment

Polis

Volute

Historical and Mythological Figures

Homer

Pericles

Polykleitos

Exekias

Phidias

The Gorgon Medusa

Date

5th c. BCE - Classical Period. Golden Age of Athens

Art and Architecture

Krater from the Dipylon cemetery 

Kore from the Acropolis 

Kroisos from Anavisos

Achilles and Ajax 

Temple of Hera I, Paestum

Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)

Parthenon

Procession frieze from the Parthenon

Battle of Issus

Dying Gaul

Nike of Samothrace 

Venus de Milo 

Laocoon and his sons

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