APAH CH 5: Ancient Greece

Geometric krater, from the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece

740BCE

3’4 1/2’’high

Geometric Period

Mantiklos Apollo, statuette of a youth dedicated by Mantiklos to Apollo, from Thebes, Greece

700-680BCE

Bronze 8’’high

Orientalizing Period

Lady of Auxerre, from Crete, probably Eleutherna, Greece

650-625 BCE

Limestone, 2’1 1/2’’ high

Orientalizing period

Kouros, from Attica, possibly Anavysos, Greece

600BCE

Marble

6’1/2’’high

Archaic Period

Peplos Kore from the Acropolis, Archaic Greek

530BCE

Marble, painted details

Archaic Period

Athenian agora, Archaic through Hellenistic Greek

600 BCE-150CE

Plan

Archaic Period

Peripteral Greek Temple (plan of typical Greek peripteral temple)

Temple of Hera I (“Basilica,” looking northeast), Paestum, Italy

550BCE

Archaic Period

West pediment, Temple of Artemis, Corfu, Greece

600-580 BCE

Limestone, greatest height 9’4’’

Restored view of the Siphnian Treasury, Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, Greece

530BCE

Archaic Period

Exekias, Achilles killing Penthesilea (Athenian black-figure amphora), from Vulci, Italy

540-530 BCE

1’4 3/8’’ high

Archaic Period

Exekias, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game (Athenian black-figure amphora), from Vulci, Italy

540-530 BCE

2’high

Archaic Period

Temple of Aphaia (looking southwest), Aegina, Greece

500-490BCE

Aegina & the Transition to the Classical Period

Guillaume-Abel Blouet, restored view (1828) of the facade of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece

500-490BCE

Aegina & the Transition to the Classical Period

Dying warrior, from the west pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece

490BCE

Marble 5’2 1/2’’ long

late archaic, early classical

Dying warrior, from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece

480BCE

Marble

6’1’’ long

late archaic, early classical

Kritios Boy, from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece

480BCE

Marble 3’10’’ high

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

Doryphoros (Spear Bearer), Polykleitos

Original 450-440BCE

Roman copy (marble) of Greek original (bronze)

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

Kresilas, Pericles

Head of a Roman herm copy of the bronze statue of 429BCE

Marble, full herm 6’ high; detail 1’6’’ high

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

Acropolis, Athens, Greece. Iktinos & Kallikrates

447-410 BCE

Marble

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

View of the Acropolis Athens, Greece

1. Parthenon

2. Propylaia

3. Pinakotheke

4. Erectheion

5. Temple of Athena Nike

   Early & High Classical Periods
   5^th century BCE

Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece. Iktinos & Kallikrates

447-410 BCE

Marble

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

Phidias, Athena Parthenos, in the cella of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece

438 BCE

Model of the lost chryselephantine statue

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

Helios, horses, and Dionysus (Heracles?)

Acropolis, Athens, Greece. Iktinos & Kallikrates

447-410BCE

Marble

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

Three goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite?( from the pediment of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece

438-432 BCE

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

Plaque of the Ergastines

Three details of the Panathenaic Festival procession frieze, from the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece

447-438 BCE

Marble 3’6’’ high

Top: horseman (north frieze)

Center: Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, and Eros (east frieze)

Bottom: elders and maidens (east frieze)

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

Temple of Athena Nike

Acropolis, Athens, Greece. Iktinos & Kallikrates

447-410 BCE

Marble

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

Nike adjusting her sandal, from the south side of the parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens, Greece

410 BCE

Marble

3’6’’ high

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

Grave stele of Hegeso, Attributed to Kallimachos

410BCE

Marble and paint

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

Niobides Krater. Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter

460-450 BCE

Clay, red-figure technique (white highlights)

Early & High Classical Periods
5^th century BCE

Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos. Roman copy of a marble statue of 350-340 BCE

Marble 6’8’’high

Late Classical Period
(4^th century BCE)

Lysippos, Apoxyomenos (Scraper), from Trastevere, Rome, Italy

Roman copy of a bronze statue of 330 BCE

Marble 6’9’’ high

Late Classical Period
(4^th century BCE)

Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun,

Pompeii, Republican Roman

100 BCE

Mosaic

Late Classical Period
(4^th century BCE)

Polykleitos The Younger, Corinthian capital, from the tholos, Edpidauros, Greece

350 BCE

Hellenistic Period (323-30 BCE)

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon. Asia Minor (Present-day Turkey), Hellenistic Greek

175BCE

Marble (Architecture and sculpture)

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon. Asia Minor (Present-day Turkey), Hellenistic Greek

175BCE

Marble (Architecture and sculpture)

Epigonos, dying Gaul. Roman copy of a bronze statue of 230-220 BCE

Marble 3’1/2’’high

Hellenistic Period (323-30 BCE)

Winged Victory of Samothrace.

Hellenistic Greek

190 BCE

Marble

Seated boxer, Hellenistic Greek

100 BCE

Bronze

Hellenistic Period

Old market woman. Roman copy (?) of a marble statue

150-100 BCE

Marble

4’1 5/8’’ high

Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, Laocoon and his sons, from Rome, Italy

first century CE Marble 7’ 10 1/2’’high

Hellenistic Period