An upright stone slab, often carved in RELIEF and/or painted for use as a grave marker (figure 12).stoa
A long colonnaded hall (figure 84), sometimes capitalized (Stoa) to refer to the Stoic school of
philosophy, whose founder taught in the Stoa Poikile in Athens.
symposium
Literally a “drinking together,” a ritualized gathering of privileged males who, after dining together,
drank wine mixed with water and entertained themselves with poetry, music, games, and sexual
activity (figure 28).
terracotta
Lightly fired, unglazed ceramic clay used for decorative tiles, architectural decorations, statuary,
vases, and so on (figure 55).
tripod
A pot or cauldron resting on three legs, often presented as a prize or as a votive offering (figure 20).
trireme
The standard warship of the Greeks during the Classical Period, which used sail for long passages but
was rowed into battle by oarsmen arranged in three rows, one above the other (figure 38).
trittys
(plural: trittyes) One of 30 units into which the population of Attica was divided by Cleisthenes in
508 BC, with one trittys from each of the three geographical divisions (city, coast, and inland)
combining to constitute one of the 10 tribes created by Cleisthenes (figure 40 and map 11).
tyrant
One of a number of usurpers who, beginning in the middle of the seventh century BC, seized autocratic
power in a polis and established (or attempted to establish) a hereditary monarchy.