Chapter 4 homework (2)
... Why are the more than 100 Aegean islands between mainland Greece and Crete known as the Cyclades? a. This area of the Aegean is prone to cyclones. b. The islands historically played an important role in the trade route cycle. c. The Greeks believed this to be the home of the mythic Cyclops. d. The i ...
... Why are the more than 100 Aegean islands between mainland Greece and Crete known as the Cyclades? a. This area of the Aegean is prone to cyclones. b. The islands historically played an important role in the trade route cycle. c. The Greeks believed this to be the home of the mythic Cyclops. d. The i ...
Ancient Mediterranean Worlds
... The seating was raised 3.60 m above the arena, and it has a gradient of 37° The ancient capacity is calculated between 50.000 and 75.000 spectators 300 tons of metal were used for the iron clamps that connected the limestone blocks together The ground floor, in limestone, is 90 cm thick on average O ...
... The seating was raised 3.60 m above the arena, and it has a gradient of 37° The ancient capacity is calculated between 50.000 and 75.000 spectators 300 tons of metal were used for the iron clamps that connected the limestone blocks together The ground floor, in limestone, is 90 cm thick on average O ...
Chapter 8 Powerpoint
... Figures are more lifelike and were placed in Storytelling scenes Exekias was an ancient Greek vase-painter and potter who was active in Athens between roughly 545 BC and 530 BC. Exekias worked mainly in the black-figure technique, which involved the painting of scenes using a clay slip that fired to ...
... Figures are more lifelike and were placed in Storytelling scenes Exekias was an ancient Greek vase-painter and potter who was active in Athens between roughly 545 BC and 530 BC. Exekias worked mainly in the black-figure technique, which involved the painting of scenes using a clay slip that fired to ...
kalokagathia
... instruction in the mythopoeic legends of Hesiod and Homer, given by the lyre-playing kitharistes. ...
... instruction in the mythopoeic legends of Hesiod and Homer, given by the lyre-playing kitharistes. ...
Pottery of ancient Greece
Because of its relative durability, pottery comprises a large part of the archaeological record of Ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (some 100,000 vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society. Little survives, for example, of ancient Greek painting except for what is found on the earthenware in everyday use, so we must trace the development of Greek art through the vestiges of a secondhand art form. Nevertheless, the shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium BC are still the best guide we have to the customary life and mind of the ancient Greeks. This question is commonly asked- why are ancient Greek pots always orange and black? Because when the pot is fired the areas painted with the clay mixture turn black and the unpainted areas turn a reddish-brown'