Chapter 5 Key Vocabulary
Terms
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- agora
- marketplace
- stoas
- colonnades
- palaestras
- gymnasiums
- meander
- key pattern around the rim of a krater
- centaur
- mythological beast that was part man, part horse
- amphora
- two-handled storage jar
- siren
- mythological beast that was part woman, part bird
- black figure painting
- black images on a light clay background
- kore
- statue of a goddess or maiden
- kouros
- youth or man statue
- peplos
- simple, long woolen belted garment
- acropolis
- high city
- ridgepole
- timber beam running the length of the building below the peak of the gabled roof
- entasis
- swelling
- gorgon
- female monster
- gigantomachy
- battle of gods
- chiton
- a light linen Ionian garment
- centauromachy
- centaur battle
- tesara
- four
- tria
- three
- foreshortened
- drawn in a three-quarter view
- kylix
- drinking cup
- contraposto
- counter balance
- chiastic
- cross balance
- strategos
- general
- minaret
- tower used to call Muslims to prayer
- pinakotheke
- picture gallery
- lekythos
- flask containing perfumed oil
- white ground technique
- chalky-white slip used to provide a background for painted figures
- hubris
- arrogance
- hydria
- water picher
- apoxyomenos
- an athele scraping oil from body after exercising
- emblema
- central framed panel
- skiagraphia
- shadow painting
- androm
- dining room
- tubicen
- trumpeter