Chapter Summary

After reading Chapter 5, you should be able to:

• Label a map of Greece.

• Explain what is meant by "Man is the measure of things," and relate it to the development of Greek art.

• Compare the New York Kouros with Menkaure and his Queen.

• Describe the position of women in ancient Greece.

• Identify Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle and describe something of their philosophy.

• List the gods, their functions and attributes.

• Draw and label the plan of the Parthenon.

• Draw and label the Doric and Ionic Orders of Architecture.

• Identify all the works and define the terms in the chapter.

• Describe the development of Greek pottery styles and their techniques from Geometric to White Ground.

• Describe the development of Greek sculpture from Orientalizing through Hellenistic.

• Describe the style, technique, and iconography of the Battle of Issos.

• Describe the process of lost-wax bronze casting, encaustic painting, and pottery-making.

• Compare the Greek canon of Polykleitos with the Egyptian grid.

• Compare and contrast the temple of Zeus at Olympia with the Parthenon from the point of view of style and iconography.

• Identify the twelve Labors of Herakles.

• Draw and label the plan of the Athenian Acropolis.

• Compare the depictions of males and females in Greek sculpture.

• Identify the leading personages of Greek history.