Chapter 4 Ancient Aegean Art
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cycladic Figure | once-painted marble figures created in the cyclades (islands off of Greece) revered for their modern simplicity. Were buried with the dead |
| Illiad (Homer) | legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. |
| Beehive tomb | a type of subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a domed chamber entered by a passage through a hillside |
| terra cotta | hard baked clay, used for sculpture and as a building material; may be glazed or painted |
| buon fresco | true or wet fresco; pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid lime plaster |
| fresco seco | dry fresco |
| Cycladic Islands | Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece |
| Crete | the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean |
| Troy | an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War |
| Marble | a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish |
| Knossos | The capital of the ancient Minoan civilization; located on the island of Crete off the coast of present-day Greece. |
| tholos | temple with a circular plan |
| minotaur | (Greek mythology) a mythical monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man |
| Kamares ware | a type of extremely fine palace pottery in the minoan culture |
| sculpture in the round | Freestanding figures, carved or modeled in three dimensions. |
| tufa | local limestone |
| repousse | formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back, making the impression of a face. The metal is hammered into a hollow mold of wood or some other pliable material and finished with a graver |
| King Minos | a king of the Minoans who legend has it owned a half-human, half-bull monster called the "Minotaur" |
| Mycenaean | an Indo-European person who settled on the Greek mainland around 1400BCE |
| Minoan | Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. The Minoans engaged in far-flung commerce around the Mediterranean and exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks. (p. 73) |
| Henreich Schliemann | Naples) was a German archaeologist, an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer, and an important excavator of Troy and of the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiry |
| labyrinth | complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost |
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