HUM 145 Introduction to World Humanities I

Second Quarter Review

Aegean Culture

Cycladic
Minoan
Mycenaean
Myth
Palace at Mycenae
Lion Gate
Relieving Triangle
Corbeled Dome
lliad (Achilles, Petrolcus, Hector, Priam)
Epic Hero
Hubris
Pantheon
Apollo
Dionysos (also see theatre origins, below)
Individual vs. Corporate Identity
Temple:

• Platform
• Colonnade
• Entablature
• Frieze
• Pediment

Regular Temple Ratio 1:2 (+1)
Kouros
Kore
Pre-socratic Philosophers:

• Democritus
• Herakleitos
• Pythagoras

Sappho
Lyric Poetry
Confessional Poetry

Classical and Hellenistic Greece

Classical
Hellenistic
Perikles
Acropolis:

• Propylaia
• Parthenon
• Athena Nike
• Erechtheion

Capital Orders:

• Doric
• Ionic
• Corinthian

Contrapposto
Sculptures:

• Doryphorus (The Spear Bearer)
• Apoxyomenos (The Scraper)

Aeschylus
Thespis
Hypocrites
Sophocles (Oedipus the King, Antigone)
Skene
Chorus
Orchestra
Dromenon
Theatron
Aristotle: Poetics

• Elements of Drama
• Tragedy
• Tragic Hero
• Catharsis

Socrates
Sophists
Plato
Theory of Forms
Allegory of the Cave
Aristotle: Philosophy and Logic

• Syllogism/Syllogistic Reasoning
• Empirical Observation

Alexander the Great
Koine Greek
Sculptures:

• Nike of Samothrace
• Laocoon and His Sons

Stoicism
Epicurianism
Skepticism

The Roman World

Etruscan
Tuscan Order
Composite Order
Patrician
Plebeian 
Engaged columns
Peripteral/Pseudoperipteral
Aqueduct
Juvenal
Satire
Ludi
Roman Arch
Vault
Dome
Colosseum
Pantheon
Constantine
Arch of Constantine
Painting Styles (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th)
Trompe l'oeil
Recognize differences between Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman sculptural conventions.

Discusion Question Pool

1. Briefly outline and discuss the development of Greek philosophical thought from the pre-Socratics through Aristotle.

2. Outline and discuss Plato's “Allegory of the Cave.” Explain the physical elements of the allegory and philosophical positions of Plato to which the allegory refers.

3. Briefly outline and discuss the development of the Greek drama from its ritual beginnings.

4. Explain Aristotle's analysis of dramatic tragedy as presented in Poesis. Address the fundamental structural elements, the nature of the tragic hero, and his reasoning as to why tragedy is beneficial to the viewer.

5. Compare and contrast the various characteristics and components of Greek and Roman temple architecture.

6. Compare and contrast Greek and Roman sculptural conventions. How do their respective aesthetic conventions reflect the worldviews, interests and concerns of each culture?

7. Outline and discuss the development of Republican Rome, giving attention to legislative processes and the evolution of the class system.

8. Compare and contrast the four different styles of Roman painting.

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