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Like most ancient temples, the interiors of Greek temples primarily served what function?

A) housing gods
B) housing altars for animal sacrifices
C) housing congregations of worshippers gathered to listen to a priest's sermon
D) housing congregations gathered in silent prayer

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How did Greek art change as it entered the Early Classical style? What factors helped to bring those changes about?

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The color of figures in black-figure vases comes primarily from the clay with which the vases were made, whereas the color of figures in red-figure vases comes primarily from the paint used to create images on the vases.

The statue of Athena in the Parthenon was made of chryselephantine, a combination of

An important development in Early Classical statuary was the

Hellenistic sculpture differs from Classical Greek sculpture in all of the following ways EXCEPT

The figures of the Parthenon's Ionic frieze are isocephalic, meaning that all of the figures' heads are at approximately the same level.

The best-preserved Greek theater, which reveals the Greeks' understanding of acoustics, is located where?

Which sculptor from Argos exemplified the Classical style in works such as the Doryphoros?

A row of columns such as those that surround the Parthenon are known as a colonnade or a

The overall lintel of the post-and-lintel system of an architectural order is known as

Because of its devotion to democracy, Athens alone among ancient Mediterranean cultures refused to practice slavery.

Who was chiefly responsible for overseeing the sculptural decorations of the Parthenon?

What did ancient Greeks call the region we call Greece?

Black-figure vases such as Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game are associated with what Greek style?

Greece did not develop a strong sense of national identity until after it overcame an invasion by Persians in the fifth century B.C.

The Parthenon's four Doric metopes all depict scenes of

Identify the five broad stylistic categories of Greek art as seen in painting and pottery. What are the characteristics of each style? What does the progression from one style to the next reveal about Greek culture?

Greek artists may have been the first in the Western world to regularly sign their works.

What feature, analogous to the contrapposto, did the Greeks add to the Mycenaean megarons when designing their temples?