What Do You Know About the History of Ancient Greece Flashcards

What do you know about the history of ancient Greece? Do you know that Greece started the Olympic Games and alexander the great was one of the greatest leaders in Greece’s history? How about you take up the flashcards below and get to see if you know the facts surrounding this great civilization, some of the cities and events that shaped its history.

27 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

Cards In This Set

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