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1. Chapter 1 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. Common Questions about Dates
4. A Beginner's Guide to the History of Western Culture
5. Why Look at Art?
6. The Skill of Describing
7. Patronage and the Status of the Artist
8. Glossary of Art Terms
9. External Resource
10. Chapter 2 Overview
11. Key Learning Items
12. Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins
13. Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)
14. Paleolithic Art Explained
15. The Neolithic Revolution
16. Jericho
17. Çatal Höyük
18. Stonehenge
19. External Resources
20. Chapter 3 Overview
21. Key Learning Items
22. Ancient Near East
23. Sumerian Art
24. The Invention of Writing
25. The Standard of Ur
26. Ziggurat of Ur
27. Art of Akkad and Ur
28. Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
29. Theories on the Meaning of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
30. Law Code of Hammurabi
31. Assyrian Art
32. Lamassu
33. Neo-Babylonian Art
34. Art of the Persian Empire
35. External Resources
36. Chapter 4 Overview
37. Key Learning Items
38. Ancient Egypt
39. Egyptian Art
40. Materials & Techniques
41. Seated Scribe
42. The Great Pyramids of Giza
43. Pyramid of Khufu
44. Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx
45. Pyramid of Menkaure
46. House Altar (Amarna Period)
47. Portrait Head of Queen Tiye
48. Bust of Nefertiti
49. Ramesses II
50. External Resources
51. Chapter 5 Overview
52. Key Learning Items
53. Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology
54. The Early Aegean (3000–700 BCE)
55. Geometric Greek Krater
56. Black Figure Amphora
57. Niobid Painter, Attic Red Figure Calyx-Krater
58. New York Kouros
59. Spear Bearer
60. The Greek Temple
61. East and West Pediments, Temple of Aphaia
62. Myron, Discus Thrower
63. The Parthenon
64. Parthenon's East Pediment
65. Parthenon Frieze
66. Parthenon Metopes
67. Erechtheion
68. External Resources
69. Chapter 6 Overview
70. Key Learning Items
71. Lysippos: Farnese Herucles
72. After Praxiteles, Venus
73. Barberini Faun
74. Dying Gaul
75. Nike of Samothrace
76. The Pergamon Altar
77. Boxer at Rest
78. Alexander Mosaic
79. Laocoön and his Sons
80. Eros Sleeping and an Old Market Woman
81. ** Petra: An Introduction
82. Petra: Rock Cut Facades
83. ** Petra: Urban Metropolis
84. External Resources
85. Chapter 7 Overview
86. Key Learning Items
87. Etruscan Art
88. Sarcophagus of the Spouses
89. Etruscan Necropolises
90. Etruscan Art Explained by the Met
91. External Resources
92. Chapter 8 Overview
93. Key Learning Items
94. Ancient Rome
95. Digging Through Time
96. Temple of Portunus
97. Veristic Male Portrait
98. The Pantheon
99. Augustus of Primaporta
100. Painted Garden
101. Head of Augustus
102. Ara Pacis
103. Villa of Mysteries
104. Colosseum
105. External Resources
106. Chapter 9 Overview
107. Key Learning Items
108. Arch of Titus
109. Hadrian's Villa
110. Maritime Theater, Hadrian's Villa
111. Pair of Centaurs
112. Column of Trajan
113. M