A short guide to terms, places and people represented in the Logie Cast Collection
04 November 2023
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To assist in understanding each catalogue entry for the Logie casts, the following is a short guide to the terms, places and people you will meet as you read about each cast.
Terms
| Agora | A public open space used as a market place and administrative centre in ancient Greece. |
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| Archaic style | Ancient Greek art made in the Archaic period (c.700–c.480 BC). Statues in the round were characterized by super-human scale, frontality, bilateral symmetry and patternized anatomy. In the later period statues commonly have a smiling expression known as an 'archaic smile'. | |
| Chiastic stance | A sculptural pose of statues in which the weight of the body appears to rest mainly on one leg. |
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| Classical style | Ancient Greek art made in the Classical period (c.480–323 BC). In sculpture, the Classical style is known for its mastery of the human form. |
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| Contrapposto | A sculptural pose of statues in which one part of the body twists or turns away from another part. |
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| Diplax | An ancient Greek single-piece garment which was draped over the shoulders. |
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| Eleusinian mysteries | An annual festival held in honor of the goddess Demeter at Eleusis. The festival included secret religious initiation rites. |
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| Ephebe | A boy who has reached the age of puberty, or in ancient Greece, a young man about to begin military training. |
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| Epithet | A name or label which expresses a quality or characteristic of the person mentioned. In ancient Greece, epithets were often assigned to gods or goddesses to relate to their different areas of interest or power. |
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| Hellenistic style | Ancient Greek art made in the Hellenistic Period (323–27 BC). Sculptors emphasized more realistic figures in a greater variety of poses than in earlier Greek art. |
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| Heraion | A sanctuary of the goddess Hera. |
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| Kiton / Chiton | An ancient Greek lightweight single-piece garment, worn like a tunic, and belted and with buttoned sleeve. |
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| Kore | A young maiden, or in sculpture, a standing draped female figure. Kore can also be used as an alternative name for the goddess Persephone, daughter of Demeter. Korai is the plural form of Kore. |
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| Kouros | A young man, or in sculpture, a standing nude male figure. Kouroi is the plural form of Kouros. |
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| Relief style | A sculpture that is carved, molded or stamped so that all or part of it projects out from, or is sunken into, a flat surface. |
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| Sanctuary | A sanctuary is an area set aside for religious purposes, and usually dedicated to a specific god or gods. Inside a sanctuary there could be a number of buildings, which might hold a temple and altar. |
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| Severe style | Ancient Greek art made in the period between circa 480-450 BC. Statues show greater understanding of anatomy, but are often austere in form and facial expression. |
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People and Places
| Acropolis | A citadel or fortified part of an ancient Greek city, typically one built on a hill. The Acropolis of Athens was the central stronghold of the city and the main sanctuary of Athena, the city's patron-goddess. |
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| Aegina | One of the Saronic islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, known for the Temple of Aphaea. |
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| Asclepius | Ancient Greek god, son of Apollo, and father of Hygeia. He was the god of medicine. |
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| Aphaea | An ancient Greek goddess worshipped on the island of Aegina. |
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| Argos | An ancient Greek city on the Argive plain, in the Peloponnese Region of southern Greece. |
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| Artemis | Ancient Greek goddess, daughter of Zeus and Leto, twin sister of Apollo. She was goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and protector of young girls. To the Romans known as Diana. |
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| Corinth | An ancient Greek city by the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow strip of land which joins the Peloponnese Region to the mainland of Greece. People from Corinth were known as Corinthian. |
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| Demeter | Ancient Greek goddess, sister of Zeus, mother of Persephone. She was goddess of the harvest and fertility, law and morality. To the Romans known as Ceres. |
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| Eleusis | An ancient Greek town in the region of Attica, in Greece, where the Eleusinian mysteries were held each year. |
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| Epidauros | An ancient Greek city on the Argolid peninsula, in the Pelopponese region of southern Greece. Known for the Sanctuary of Aesclepius. | |
| Hera | Ancient Greek goddess, daughter of Cronus and wife of Zeus. She was the goddess of women and marriage. To the Romans known as Juno. |
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| Herakles / Hercules | Ancient Greek mythological hero, son of Zeus and Alcmene, most well known for completing the Twelve Labours. |
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| Hygeia | Ancient Greek goddess, daughter of Aesclepius. She was the goddess of health, hygeine, and cleanliness. |
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| Macedon | Ancient kingdom to the north of Greece, which rose to power over the Greek world under Philip II and his son Alexander the Great. |
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| Pausanias | A Greek traveller, writer and geographer of the 2nd century AD. He is most well known for his work 'Description of Greece', in 10 books. |
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| Peloponnese | Peloponnese is a region in southern Greece. It is a peninsula separated from mainland Greece by the Gulf of Corinth. |
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| Persephone | Ancient Greek goddess, Demeter's daughter by Zeus, wife of Hades, and queen of the Underworld. Also referred to as Kore. |
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| Tegea | Ancient Greek settlement in Arcadia, in the Peloponnese Region of southern Greece. |
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| Tyrannicides | Used to describe the men Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who killed the tyrant Hipparchus, ruler of Athens, in 514 BC. The artist Kritios / Critius (active c. 490–460 BC) was responsible for creating the well known sculptural group called the 'Tyrannicides', depicting Harmodius and Aristogeiton. |
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| Zeus | Ancient Greek god, son of Cronos and Rhea, husband of Hera, who ruled as king of the gods at Mount Olympus. He was god of the sky and weather. Known to the Romans as Jupiter. |
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References
- Hornblower, S. and Spawforth, A. (editors). The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd revised edition, Oxford University Press, 2005
- Clarke, M. and Clarke, D. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2010
- The Getty Research Institute, Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, JP Getty Trust, 2015. http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/
