Chapter 5 Definitions

Homer

• 1st great literer and Greek poet

• wrote the iliad and the odyssey

• ca 750 BC

• helped with language

Geometric period

ca 9th-8th Centuries BC

Orientalizing

ca 7th Century BC

Archaic

ca 600-480 BC

Early classical

ca 480-450 BC

High classical

ca 450-400 BC

Late classical

ca 400-323 BC

Hellenistic

ca 323-30 BC

Meander pattern

Decorative border constructed from a continous line shaped into a motif

• flowing lines

• maze like

• checker board

Cella

• Main Room

• Temple core that housed the cult statue of a deity

Pronaos

front entrance

porch

Peristyle

colonnade around the temple

Stylobate

3 step platform and the level on which the columns stand

Acropolis

High city

Colonnade

row of columns

Entasis

• Heavy, closely spaced columns with a pronounced swelling at the middle of the shaft

• curvature of the columns

• anthropomorphic form

Peripteral colonnade

greek temple surrounded by columns

Foreshortening

Creates the illusion of 3d on a 2d surface by playing with the picture plane

Contrapposto

counter balance

• shows movement

• and stillness

Pericles

elected ruler of Athens

Archaic smile

• Shows that a figure is life like and about to speak

Doric order

• Entablature

  • Cornice

  • Frieze

    • Triglyph

    • Metope

  • Architrave

• Column

  • Capital

    • Abacus

    • Echinus

  • Shaft

    • Flutes

• Stylobate

Ionic order

• Entablature

  • Cornice

  • Frieze

  • Architrave

• Column

  • Capital

    • Abacus

    • Volute

  • Shaft

  • Base

• Stylobate

Outside of temples

Where Worship took place