Overview
Answers should be 1-2 sentences each.
Ancient Greek Vase production and the black-figure techniqueLinks to an external site.
1. How did the potters extract purified clay?
2. How did potters shape the wet clay?
3. What is slip?
4. Within the kiln, what is the technique for producing the red oxide?
Exekias, Attic black figure amphora with Ajax and Achilles playing a gameLinks to an external site.
5. Ajak and Achilles are characters and which story?
6. How do we know that Achilles is winning the game?
7. How did Achilles die?
8. How did Ajax die?
9. What is an amphora?
10. Why did the pot end up in Italy?
Niobid KraterLinks to an external site.
11. What is a calyx-krater used for?
12. What did Niobe claim about her children?
13. What happened to Niobe's children?
14. How did the potter try to create an illusion of space within the scene on the post?
15. What are the soldiers asking Heracles?