chapter 5 - section 1
Terms
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- classical
- describing the artistic style of ancient Greece Rome characterized by balance elegance and simplicity.
- buliding for gods
- the buildings for gods are called Parthenon
- sanctuaries
- places of worship
- perspetive
- the artistic showing of distances btw. objects as they appear to the eye.
- greek arts
- they liked to portray the human form by showing on pottery, paintings and sculpture.
- painting on vases
- greeks designed pottery for different functions. they painted scenes from everyday life on their pottery. it was usually painted a red on black background or black on red.
- amphora
- a large vase for storing oil and other bulk supplies.
- sculpting the human body
- the greeks liked for paint and sclupt the athlectic human body and would study it until they had it perfect.
- myron
- one of the greatest sculptors of Greece's golden age portrayed in his status idealized views of what people should look like rather then actual persons.
- phidias
- was a great scluptor and was in charge of the parthenon's sculptures.
- praxiteles
- another famous Greek sculptor who reflected the changes that had accrued in Greek life
- drama and theater
- Greeks were the 1st to write and preform plays
- aeschylus
- was the 1st of great writers of tragedies in the 400s B.C.
- tragedy
- the lead character stuggles against fait only to be doomed after much suffering to an unhappy or tragic ending
- sophocles
- was the next great tragedian, had served as a general in the athenian army and had lived through most of the peloponnesian war
- euripides
- last of the 3 great greek tragedians rarely delt with the influence of the gods and goddness on human lifes.
- a comedy tonight
- the greeks also wrote comedies
- comedies
- plays with humorous themes and happy endings.
- aristophanes
- the most famous writers of comedies
- the olympic games
- the games were held in olympian, only men played, women wernt allowed to watch. the greek crowned the olympic winners with wreath of olive leaves
- olympia
- olympic games were held here every 4 years