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WGU C100 Introduction To Humanities Vocabulary
1.Kouros: Type of statue featuring life sized male nudes in a stance in
which the left foot is placed in front of the right.
2.Muses: Goddesses of inspiration for literature, art, and science.
3.Doric order: The simplest of the classical Greek architectural styles,
featuring unadorned columns with no base.
4.Post and lintel: Classical Greek architectural design that features
two upright posts supporting a crossbeam called a lintel.
5.Frieze: A broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration,
usually on a wall near the ceiling.
6.Entablature: The horizontal layers of material of a building that are
supported by columns or walls.
7.Pediment: The triangular upper part of the front of a building in the
classical style.
8.Capital: The top part of a column between the shaft of the
column and the entablature. 1 / 3
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9.Catharsis: The purging of a spectator's strong emotions through
experiencing tragedy~ one of Aristotle's concepts.
10.Hubris: Greek word for excessive pride, presumption or arrogance
(originally toward the gods).
11.Epic: A long poem recounting in elevated style the deeds of a
legendary hero~ any narrative work (novel, drama, film) dealing with epic themes.
12.Canon: A set of rules developed by the Greek artist Polykleitos for
creating perfect proportionality in the human figure.
13.Diction: Wordchoice~ can be classified as formal or informal, or
denotative or connotative.
14.Hellenic: A synonym for Greek.
15.Skepticism: A philosophy that maintains that there can be no
certainty in human knowledge and that mankind should continually be involved with finding the truth.
16.Allegory of the Cave: Plato's extended metaphor in The Republic
that con- trasts the way in which most humans perceive reality and Plato's idea of the true form of reality. 2 / 3
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17.The Forms: Plato's concept that there are ideal essences (the
Forms) of objects or things.
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