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 MAA 5/96 PRONOUNCIATION GUIDE 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 MAA 5/96 PRONOUNCIATION GUIDE 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 MAA 5/96 .