PRONOUNCIATION GUIDE
A tape with pronounciation of the words on this list can be checked out from the office of the Curator of Education/Public and Docent Programs.
Egypt
Names of gods: Anubis, Hathor, Horus, Isis, Nepthys, Osiris, Sokar, Thoth Other names: Akmim, Lady Taathyr, Oxyrhinchus, Panopolis, Pet-menekh, Saite Useful words: ankh, canopic, ostraca, shawabti
Ancient Writing
Cuneiform, hieroglyphics, demotic
Iran
Chalcolithic, Luristan, Sialk, Tepe Giyan
Mesopotamia
Enkidu, Gilgamesh, Isin Larsa, Pazuzu
Anatolia
Depas amphikypellon, dickite, Hacilar, intaglio, Urartu, Yortan
Cyprus
Episkopi, Phaneromeni
Palestine
Acheulean, Ammonite, Astarte, Bab edh-Dhra, Moab, Paleolithic, Ramallah, Reshef, Tell el-Yahudiyeh
Greece
Vase names: alabastron, amphora, amphoriskos, aryballos, askos, chous and plural choes, hydria, kantharos, kylix, lekanis, lekythos, oinochoe, olpe, pelike, pyxis, rhyton, situla, skyphos, stamnos, unguentarium Pottery wares: Calenian, Daunian, Gnathia Place names: Aigina, Aphaia, Boeotia, The Cyclades, Elateia, Hierapolis, Macedonia, Paionios, Samothrace, Tyrrhenian Sea
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Greece, cont.
Artists' names: Agasias, Arkesilaos, Athanadoros, Epiktetos, Goulandris Master, Hagesandros, Hermonax, Lysippos, Oltos, Penthesileia Painter, Pheidias, Polydoros, Polykleitos, Praxiteles, Scopas Names of gods, heroes, and mythical beings: Achilles, Ajax, Arimaspians, Artemis, Asklepios, Deianeira, Deidameia, Demeter, Eileithyiai, Herakles, Hermes, Hygieia, maenad, Nike, Palaimon, Peirithous, satyr, Theseus Historical names: Aristodamos, Euripides, Harmodios, Perikles Names of sculptures: Athena Lemnia, Athena Velletri, Apollo Belvedere, Apoxyomenos, Borghese Warrior, Diadoumenos, Diskobolos, Doryphoros, Laocoon, Ludovisi Throne, Medici Aphrodite, Nike Architectural terms: antefix, karyatid, metope, triglyph Miscellaneous: fibula, hoplite, krotala, peplos, stele and stelai, tripod, triskeles, Badromios Cultural periods: Daedalic, Minoan, Mycenaean
Republican Rome and the Roman Empire
Arretine, Arezzo, archaistic, Aequitas, Ceres, Marcus Perennius Bargathes, Euterpe, Hecate, Levitha, The god Men, Moneta, Othryades, Pudicitia, Sabazius, sarcophagus, plural sarcophagi, strigil, terra sigillata
Italy, Villanovans and Etruscans
Bucchero, Caere, Cerveteri, foscolo, harpago, Vulci
Byzantine and Early Christian Art
Aelia Eudocia, ampulla, ampullae, chi-rho monogram, Eucharistic paten, Julian the Apostate, nomismata, repoussee, stylus, stylites, Zimisces
Greek and Roman Coins
As, aureus, billon, cista mystica, cistophoros, denarius, didrachm, die, diobol, drachm, drachma, dupondius, electrum, exergue, hemidrachm, hemiobol, incuse, obol, orichalcum, quadrans, quadriga, quinarius, semis, sestertius, siglos, stater, tetartemorion, tetradrachm, triens, tripod, Wappenmnzen
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Greek and Roman Deities and Heroes (Counter nos. 157-199)
This list is taken from Marilyn Stokstad, Art History, vol. I (New York 1995), p. 156. The Latin name for the god or hero follows the Greek one.
Gods and Goddesses
Zeus (Jupiter), Hera (Juno), Hestia (Vesta), Poseidon (Neptune), Hades (Pluto), Ares (Mars), Hephaistos (Vulcan), Apollo (Phoebus), Artemis (Diana), Athena (Minerva), Aphrodite (Venus), Hermes (Mercury), Demeter (Ceres), Persephone (Proserpina), Dionysos (Bacchus), Eros (Cupid), Eos (Aurora), Ge, Asklepios (Aesculapius), Amphitrite, Pan, Nike, Fortuna, Priapus, Saturn, Janus
Heroes
Herakles (Hercules), Perseus who killed Medusa, Theseus who killed the Minotaur
Heroes of the Trojan War
Odysseus (Ulysses), Achilles, Patroclus, Ajax, Paris, Hector, Priam, Sarpedon, and Aeneas
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