Cycladic culture is where and what?
Islands of Greek / Turkey
Neolithic figurines and frescoes depicting everyday events
Minoan culture is where
Crete
Minoan culture associated with what
Bulls, warlike people, King minos and the Minotaur
Doric
simple
Ionic
Intelligent
Corinthian
Very complex
Patrician
Land owning politician
Plebeian
Working class citizen
More detail grows in sculpture as what grows?
Democracy- increased focus on the individual
Contropassto pose
One leg straight, one leg bent
Oedipus Rex Plot
Plato was interested in
the ethereal world, heaven like place
Aristotle was interested in
Studying earth and our world
Augustus promoted
families
Epicureanism
Don’t fear death, make the most of life, life happily
Romans invented
Arch and dome
Who persecuted Christians ?
Diocletian
What 3 things led to Rome’s decline
Overextended empire, rise of Christianity, decadence
Masada
Jewish rebels committed suicide
Pharisses
Associated with masses, believed in resurrection
Sadducees
High priests, associated with the aristocracy, denied resurrection
Essenes
Most conservative
Iconography in Christian art
Less realistic, more depictions of Christ
Who moved the capital to Constantinople?
Constantine
