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| the direct rule of the people (demos) | ||
| an independent city state | ||
| the ceremonial games in which all the Greek states participated | ||
| a vase with a hole placed at the bottom for a libation (a liquid used as a sacrifice to a deity) so it could seep out unto the grave | ||
| a Greek, shallow drinking cup | ||
| a two-handled Greek storage jar | ||
| a tall vase with two handles and a cover | ||
| a pattern made up of bands of horizontal, abstract motifs, also, called the Greek key | ||
| the formative period of Greek art | ||
| a mythological beast, half man and half horse | ||
| a female monster (Medusa had a head of snakes could turn men into stone) | ||
| the period of Greek art from 900 to 500BC. It was the earliest period of great vase painting and the beginning of monumental stone sculpture | ||
| a creature which is half bird and half woman | ||
| a style in which the entire design is pained in black silhouette against the red clay. The internal design is scratched in with a needle | ||
| the reddish clay was painted with black slip (watery clay substance). The design was freely painted with a brush which made it possible to show overlapping and foreshortening | ||
| a female figure which functions as a column | ||
| an archaic Greek sculpture of a standing female youth | ||
| an archaic Greek sculpture of standing male youth | ||
| high city is a sacred hill on which the Parthenon was built | ||
| an element of the Doric frieze separating two consecutive metopes and divided into three sections | ||
| a swelling in the middle of the shafts on a column | ||
| a small building set up for the safe storage of votive offerings | ||
| a triangle over the lintel in a temple | ||
| the entire structure above the columns |
