Flashcards
Study guide
- Describe the rise of the polis, and the historical context in which this happened.
- How do the topography, plan, and architecture of Zagora exemplify early Greek towns?
- What do burials at Lefkandi and Athens tell us about social structure in early Greece?
- Define hoplite warfare. Was constant warfare an inevitable product of city-state rivalry, or did technological advances in warfare (the development of the hoplite phalanx formation) cause or encourage violent rivalries between cities?
- What are the characteristic features of a Greek sanctuary? How are they illustrated at the Heraion on Samos, tenth through seventh centuries BC? Keep your answer in mind when you read Chapter 15, on Delphi and Olympia.
Useful websites
- Corinth excavations: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/excavationcorinth/
- Lefkandi excavations: http://lefkandi.classics.ox.ac.uk
- Greek art: Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art): http://www.metmuseum.org/toah
Images
Figure 12.1
Greece and the Aegean basin.
Figure 12.2
Kinet Höyük in the Iron Age (reconstruction).
Figure 12.3
Town plan, Zagora.
Figure 12.4
Temple model, clay, from the Argive Heraion. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Figure 12.5
Plan, “Heroon,” Lefkandi.
Figure 12.6
The Dipylon Amphora. Geometric vase found in the Kerameikos cemetery, Athens. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Figure 12.7
The Macmillan Aryballos. Protocorinthian vase found in Thebes. British Museum, London.
Figure 12.8
Early Temple of Hera, eighth century BC, Samian Heraion.
Figure 12.9
The second Temple of Hera and the Samian Sanctuary of Hera (Heraion), seventh century BC.
Figure 12.10
Mantiklos’s dedication to Apollo, bronze figurine, from Thebes (Boeotia), Greece.
Figure 12.11
Lydian and Greek coins in the Numismatic Museum, Athens. Not drawn to the same scale. (a) Lydian silver coin, sixth century BC, with lion and bull, and simple punch mark. (b) Athenian silver tetradrachm, fifth century BC, with Athena and owl. (c) Gold stater from Panticapaeum, mid fourth century BC, with Pan and a griffin.