RENOWNED ARTISTS OF ANCIENT GREECE:

 
 
CALLICRATES; ICTINUS; MNESICLES (~440 BC) Architects of tghe Parthenon and Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens.
EXEKIAS (~540 BC) Greatest Attic black figure vase-painter.
LYSIPPUS (~330 BC) Pre-Hellenistic sculptor, portraitist of Alexander of Macedonia. Set the standards of rendering muscular bodies.
MYRON (~450 BC) Athenian sculptor of athletic ideal.
PHDEIAS (~440 BC) Sculptor of the Parthenon frieze, Athena Parthenos, Zeus at Olympia, etc. statues of gods.
POLYCLEITUS (~440 BC) Sculptor of ideal warrior-type: Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer); Amazons, etc.
POLYGNOTUS (~440 BC) Painter of the Stoa Poikile etc. wall-paintings. Rendered subtle effects of light and inner character.
PRAXITELES (~340 BC) Sculptor of female beauty - Cnydian Aphrodite; Phryne (Athenian hetaera who posed as Aphrodite; indicted for impiety, she was acquitted on the grounds that she, in fact, looked as Aphrodite); Eros-type, etc.
SCOPAS (~350 BC) Sculptor and architect of temples and cult-statues, including work on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and the temple of Artemis of Ephesus - both counted among the "7 Wonders of the Ancient World'.

 

PERIODS OF GREEK CERAMICS:

HELLADIC (primitive ware)   ~ 6000 - 3000 BC
CYCLADIC (figurines; rough pottery) ~ 3000 - 2000 BC
MINOAN/ MYCENEAN (life-painted pot) ~ 2000 - 1000 BC
GEOMETRIC STYLE (linear design) ~ 1000 - 700 BC
ORIENTALIZING (zoomorphic) STYLE ~ 700  - 600 BC
ATTIC BLACK/ RED FIGURED STYLE  ~ 600 - 400 BC
POST-CLASSICAL WARE (& glass) later time; Hellenistic; Roman

 

 TYPES OF GREEK POTTERY:


ALABASTRON Perfume; ointment
AMPHORA (pl.-AE)   Wine/ oil storing
ARYBALLOS Perfume; ointment
HYDRIA (3 handles) Water carrying/ pouring
KANTHAROS  Drinking cup
KRATER: calyx - wider neck & volute - narrower neck  Mixing bowl of wine/ water
KYATHOS Ladle-cup
KYLIX Flat drinking cup
LECYTHOS Libations; fragrance
LOUTROPHOROS Bride's ceremonial bathing
OINOCHOE Wine-pouring jar
PELIKE Storage jar
PYXIS Cosmetics/ toilet jar
RHYTON Drinking horn-cup
SKYPHOS Drinking cup
STAMNOS Storage jar