ba: the part of a human being that left the body after death; Egyptians believed it could return to inhabit the mummy; it is usually depicted as a human-headed bird | ||||||||||||||||||
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Bacchus: Roman god of wine; known as Dionysos to the Greeks | ||||||||||||||||||
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barbarian: a non-Greek; to the Greeks, foreigners who did not speak Greek were barbarian | ||||||||||||||||||
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bas=relief: sculpture in which figures project only slightly from a flat background | ||||||||||||||||||
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Black Sea: inland sea connected to the Mediterranean through the strait of the Bosphoros; its shores were colonized by the Greeks in the 8th century | ||||||||||||||||||
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bosses: raised knobs | ||||||||||||||||||
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bronze: a mixture of copper, tin, and other metals | ||||||||||||||||||
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