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Humanities
2nd midterm
112
History
Not Applicable
03/13/2006

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Term
Dark ages
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1200 - 800 BC
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Cycladic and Minoan and Mycenaean Time Line
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2500 - 1200 BC
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First True Historian
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Thucydides
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First Olympics
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776 BC
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Homeric Epics
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750 BC
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Archaic Period
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800-500 BC
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Classical Era (Hellenic)
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500-400 BC
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Hellenistic
Alexander Ruled
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336-323 BC
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Hellenistic Era
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323 to late 1st century
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Etruscans
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Dominated Italy from 900 to 509 BC
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Cycladic Statues
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found in tombs, same as serdad statue
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Cycladic islands are located in ...
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the Aegean Sea
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Minaon located in
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Crete and Santorini
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What was the culture like of the Minoans
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Palace culture
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Minoan Art
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Octopus Jar
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Frescoes
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Paint on wet Plaster Cupbearers, La Parisienne - man and a bull, Dolphins and Sea Life
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Minoan Style of Columns
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Inverted Tree Trunks
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The Palace of Knossos
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Minoan, discovered by Sir Arthur Evans, King Minos and the Minotaur
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Harvester Vase
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Minoan Vase, happy, anatomy
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Why did the Minoan culture end?
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Atlantis a volcano explosion, or The Conquered by the Mycenaeans
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Mycenaean main theme
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War and Adversity
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Heinrich Schliemann
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Discovered Mycenaean Treasury of Atreus and Bee Hive Tombs
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Mycenae and the Tiryns
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20 ft. defense walls, had a kings throne (megaron), Lion Gate (post and lintel) Simple
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Mycenanean Art
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Warrior Vase, Dagger Blands, Vaphio Cups
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Period of Invasion for Myceneans
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Dorians from teh north and Ionians from the East, they had better weapons
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Dark Ages
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90 percent of population is lost, development of oral tradition
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Olympics
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Sacred precinct of the god Zeus
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Hellenic
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Greeks
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Homer
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Illiad and the Odyssues
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Illiad
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about war, Achilles was the mightest greek in the war, Battle of Troy about getting back Helen
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Oddysseus
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About coming home again, fighting a cyclops and being responsible, arete - excellence, Balance
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Greek Religion
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Polytheistic
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Head of all gods
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Zeus
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Zeus's Wife
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Hera
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God of Wisdom and War
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Athena
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Goddess of Love
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Aphrodite
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God of the Sea
God of Reason
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Posiedon
Apollo
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Mystery Religions because of unwelcomingness of Gods
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Cult of Dionysus, God of celebrations, offered afterlife
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Archaic Age and Contacts
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Hellenic
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ontact with Ionia
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Empiricism and rational Inquiry
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Contact with Egypt
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Architecture
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Contact with Phoenicia
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Writing
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Archaic Age
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Made everything uniquely greek, and formed City- states Polis
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Contact with Mediterranean
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Trade
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Developement of the Polis
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Metropolis - mother city
Acropolis - high city
Agora - lower city
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Describe Classical Greece
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Sparta and Athens
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Sparta
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Women equal free, men raised for war, Slaves were called Helots which are Peloponnesus, and Messenians
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Athens desribe
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Women had no power, rich men were educated and they were the ones to vote, used women and chilren slaves,
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Classical Greece Athens would use this to kick people out
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Ostracism
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Effect of polesis and lack of unification
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Led to outside forces (persian wars)
Inside forces (Peloponnesian War)
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First Persian War
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Ionian Cities revolted against Persia, Athens helped Ionia, and then Persian King Darius invaded Greece
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Battle of Marathon
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Great victory for Athenians, runner ran and yelled Nike
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Battle of Marathon
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Great victory for Athenians, runner ran and yelled Nike
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Darius
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Persian King
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Darius's son
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Xerxes, king of Persia
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Second Persian War
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Ten years later under Xerxes, and the Spartan army won on land, and Athenian navy wom at Salamis
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Greek victory of Persia
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Golden Age of Greece - height of cultural achievements
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Delian League
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sacred island of Delos, tribute,
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Pericles
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director of Delian League, killed those who didn't believe loot should go to Athens, then WAR
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Peloponnesian War
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Athenians vs. Spartans, Spartans won with the Board of Thirty Tyrants
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Classical Greek Life
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humanism, thought provoking
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Homer
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stressed individualism
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Oracle at Delphi
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Know Thyself
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Pythagoras, Hippocrates
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Math, Medicine
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Socrates
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socratic method
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Plato
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Allegory of the Cave, Theory of Forms - becoming, Idealism (otherworldliness)
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Aristotle (Plato's student)
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empiricism, Realism (thisworldliness), Doctrine of the Mean - everything has balance
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Greek Theatre
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Theatre of Dionysus, held by the city
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Agora
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Lower city, meeting place,
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Panathenaic Festival
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Celebrated the birth of Athena, Athens' civic deity
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Acropolis
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High City
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Pericles said this
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Buildings live on long after man's deeds are forgotten
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Propylaea
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foregates, museum- temple of the muses, picture gallery
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Statue of Athena Promachus
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Made with bronze of defeated Persians, use as navigation
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Temple of Athena Nike
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Brings victory by flying different places, but the wings are chopped off so she will stay in Athens
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Erectheum
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Home of first king, contest between Athena and Poseidon to see who would be the civic deity
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Parthenon
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Dedicated to Athena, goddess of war strategy, idealism - perfectionism, rationalism - mile high into sky, harmonic proportions - foot, humanism - center of everything, sculptures in parthenon
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Sculptures in the Parthenon
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Athenian Sculpture 40 ft tall made of gold surronded by Olive oil
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Frieze
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Panathenaic procession, action! square pieces
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Metopes
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Symbolize greek victory over Persians, Square sections in a pattern
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Pediments
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Triangular aread, birth of Athena
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Free Standing Sculptures in Archaic
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Kore, importance of athletics
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Free Standing Sculptures in Early Classical and Classical
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Kritos Boy - introduces movement -- freedom, moves to anatomy and wet t-shirt contest, Spearbearer by Polyskeitos
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Hellenistic
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Greek like
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Hellenistic Era
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Macedonians
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Philip of Macedon
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Hostage and then learned, he was a greecophile - lover of greek
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Battle of Chaeronea
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Philip conquered Greece, established Corinthian League, his son Alexander was the main leader during the war
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Battle of Issus
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Alexander the Great defeated the Persians, met Darius the Third
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Alexander the Great
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Cult of the Deified Ruler, he was worshipped as a God, established Koine - (common greek), got rid of Polesis
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Hellenistic Kingdoms
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Antigonid(Macedonia Greece), Sleucid(Syria), Attalid(Pergamum), and Ptolemaic(Egypt)
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Monument to Lysicrates
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Hellenistic Architechture, located in central Athens
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Grid Plans, developed by Alexander, materialism located in...
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Priene, Asia Minor
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Hellenistic Theater
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Theater at Epidarius, Greece
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Government buildings for kings to meet with council
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Bouleterion at Miletus, Asia Minor
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Pergamum Asia Minor
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Attalid Kingdon, king lives on the top
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Hellenistic sculptures portrayed
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Realism by Aristotle
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Dying Gauls
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Victory of Attalus over Gauls, Pathos
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Altar of Zeus and Athena
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Strong contrast from parthenon
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Hellenistic Sculptures
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Laocoon, Boy Strangeling Goose, Old Market Woman, Seated Boxer, Winged Nike of Samothrace, Aphrodite de Melos (taking a bath)
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Hellenistic Mosaic
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Battle of Issus, Alexander defeating Darius III
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The Etruscans were
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Presursors of the Romans
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The Etruscans were
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Presursors of the Romans
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The Etruscans were
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Presursors of the Romans
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Necropolis
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City of the dead, bee hive dirt tombs
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Tumulus
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Tomb, carved out of tufa (volcanic rock)
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Loculi
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where dead bodies are placed, interiors carved and or painted
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Sarcohagus
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coffin, eventually the flesh disappears, "dining couch"
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Etruscan sculptures
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acroterion, - show sense of energy
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Etruscan temples
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Frontal, deep porch, high podium, directional
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Triad
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Jupiter, Juno, Minerva (Athena)
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Heptoscopy
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believed that you could tell the future by looking at the liver to tell the future
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Historian who Recounts Lydian origins of Etruscans
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Herodotus
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