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classical archaeology 341
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11/01/2010

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Geometric
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refers to roughly 900-700bc and is refering to the style of pottery where humans and shapes are very geometric. designs are often in triangles and other geometric shapes, animals can overlap but humans tend not to be..
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heroon
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the shrine of a hero, a semidivine person. seen at lefkandi, with the cemetary outside. seems to be the precurser to the temple. 10th c bc.
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sphyrelaton
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a way of making metal figurines. they would hammer thin metal around a wood core. found at dreros around 700bc.. figure of apollo
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centaur
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seen depicted in many places, in lefkandi a terracota centaur was broke in two and burried in tombs outside of the heroon. 10th c bc
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kerameikos
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the potters quarters in athens which intruded on the famous cemetery also so named.
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dipylon
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a cemetary from athens. from which we hve geometric kraters. part of the kerameikos
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prothesis
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the lying in state of a corpse
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ekphora
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a ritual way of carrying away of a coffin, a funeral procession to a cemetery.
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krater
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seen for male burial sites. wine mixing dish.. seen at symposium.
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tripod
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offerings and prizes at the olympic games. legs cast, bowl hammered, forms found at lefkandi around 900bc
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polos-oi
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a tall headdress.
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orientalizing
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700-600bc major advances are happening in cornith, which include more detail, color, lighter clay, figures in profile. more overlap of people.. human body still dominates the space
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gorgon
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one of three female monsters endowed with wings and snakes for hair and long fangs. madussa is the most famous she is often. they turn you to stone, seen on many temples.
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gorgoneion
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cyclops
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blinded by drink tricked by perdeus associated with athenia. seen on the amphora from eleusis in 660oc
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symposium
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a male social drinking gathering. slaves and serving boys would be present. mixed wine and men lay on couchs and drink a lot of wine and tell stories. seen depicted on many kraters.
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stoa
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a long rectangular colonnaded building familur in sanctuaries and agoras
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daedalic
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triangular face, wiglike hair, frontal and ridged pose. tight vertical arms, sharp horizontal waste, geometrically derived.
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mantiklos
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a bronze statue from thebes 700-675bc dedicated to apollo. cylindical theighs, triangular face, pyramidal neck,
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kouros
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a standing nude male figure. seen in marble, at first very similar to egyptian statues. one leg forward, sometimes unproportionally long. at first meant to be viewed from front, lines for attributes, later carved in.
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kore
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a female figure in statue. very straight and ridged at first, takes longer for them to get show skin and show movement and attributes.
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chryselephantine
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a type of statue made of gold and ivory, seen in athenia at athens and zeus on
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cella/ naos
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the main room in the center of a temple where the statue of cult was placed.. thought to be the original part of the temple seen in the heroon but developed into what it is.
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pronaos
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the front pourch of the greek temple, just outside of the cella but within the collumiade
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opisthodomos
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the back porch of the of a greek temple
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peristyle
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the collonaid either inside or outer. diffrence with doric or ionic
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columns in antis
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the collums that support the enterence to the opistatimus and the pronaos later in temple structer they were lined up with the collonaid.
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stylobate
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the area that is under the columaidabover the sterobate
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stereobate
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the two leveling stairs that sit above the ground but below the stylobate which supports the colloms
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architrave
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the area above the capital of the collum but below the frieze on the ionic temples it was stepped but on doric it was a flat surface.
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frieze
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the decorated area of the temple. on doric it would be metopes that were decorated inbetween the triglyphs which were sluted peices. on the ionic they were continuous
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pediment
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triglyph
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an alternating fluted peice within the doric temples frieze, besides the metopes it was not decorated besides the flutes.
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metope
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the decorated section of the doric freize alternating with the triglpyh
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entablature
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the entire area of the temple above the capital. including but not limited to the architrave frieze cornice and capital.
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capital
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the triangular area at the top of the temples, decorated often with sculpture either lower leaf or freestanding.
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treasury
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part of temple where the votive offering were held, or refering to the treasurys on the panhellenic sanctuarys where polis would build to hold the votive offerings that they were sending.
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caryatid
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a female figure holding the entablature area of the temple takes the place of a collum.
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symposium
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male drinking event
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andron
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satyr
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black figure
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a way of decorating pottery where the figures were drawn in with black, the black was slip that after fire colored to the black, the detail was incised and additional colors were used, precurser to red-figure.
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red figure
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s technique for painting pottery that was opposite of black figure, background was black the figures were red lines were drawn in with slip
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bilingual
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relief line
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in red figure vase painting a strong line which stands up off the surface and is used for contrours of figures and inportaint interior details
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pioneers
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potter portaits
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Ilioupersis
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strigil
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aryballos
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a small vessue used to hold oil or perfume.
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panathenaic
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sever style
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pheidias
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tyrannicides
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contrapposto
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