Homework Questions
Please number your
responses and answer all questions completely using details to support your
answers.
CHAPTER 4: Aegean Art
1. What
types of materials were traded during the Aegean Bronze Age?
2. Compare
the Cycladic Figure with the Venus of Willendorf. What similarities do they
share, and what differences separate them? Could they be somehow related to
each other?
3.
Which ancient myth is inspired by and later led to the discovery of the
archaeological remains of the Minoan civilization?
4. What
differences do you note between the Palace at Knossos and the Palaces of Nimrud
and Nineveh in Assyria? What do these differences demonstrate about the two
cultures?
5. What
is unique about Minoan fresco painting as compared to Egyptian paintings?
6. From
whom were the Mycenaeans descended?
7. What
is the Treasury at Atreus and what is significant about its construction
technique?
8. How
was gold utilized in the artwork of Mycenaean culture?
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