CLASSICS: THE AMAZONOMACHY EXAM QUESTIONS

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CLASSICS: THE AMAZONOMACHY EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: What two battles were there?

Answer:

1: Haracles' ninth labour

2: The attic war, in which Heracles brought Theseus an Amazonian wife

Question 2: What did the Amazonomachy represent?

Answer:

Greece's triumph over foreign people Question 3: How did the sculptor fill the space as to not leave big blank spaces?

Answer:

The bent knees suggest action and fit nicely into the space, the horse fills the centre and the Amazon being pulled back fills the space

Question 4: How did the sculptor make an easily recognisable scene?

Answer:

The man fights two women, the woman has one bare breast

Question 5: Who did they only couple with?

Answer:

Men of the neighbouring tribe

Question 6: Basses was a small town southeast of Olympia, what was there?

Answer:

the temple of Apollo epikcurious, begun in 450BC by itkinos

Question 7: Where was Asia Minor

Answer:

The western two thirds of modern turkey

Question 8: Who were the Amazons

Answer:

A mythical race of women from Asia Minor who stayed clear of men

Question 9: How did the sculptor create realism?

Answer:

The drapery on the right hand Amazon correctly depicts movement, There is also a snapshot mid-flight in which the horseback Amazon tries to flee away Question 10: The scene runs around the east and south-east end of the frieze, What does it show?

Answer:

The Heraclean amazonomachy

Question 11: If the amazons gave birth to a son, what happened?

Answer:

It was killed Question 12: Where in the temple is the frieze of the Amazonomachy and what is so special about it?

Answer:

The Naos. You could see the whole freeze while standing in one space.