Ancient Greek

Anavysos Kouros

Date: 530 BCE

Location: Greece

Material: Marble

Content: funerary, used as grave marker for warrior/ idealized figure with archaic smile

Peplos Kore

Date: 530 BCE

Location: Athenian Acropolis (Greece)

Material: marble (once painted)

Content: could depict goddess Artemis, was once brightly painted/ idealized female form

Doryphoros Spear Bearer

Date: 450 BCE

Location: Pompeii Italy

Material: Marble

Content: Represents classical Greek art (contrapposto and idealized form) / was found In a place for athletic training

Parthenon sculptures

Date: 430 BCE

Location: Athenian Acropolis, Greece

Material: marble

Content: few of the many religious sculptures found at the Parthenon/ high relief and contrapposto

Plaque of Ergastines

Date: 430 BCE

Location: Parthenon, Greece

Material: marble

Content: depicts a PanAthenaic procession held to honor Athena/ Part of a frieze from the Parthenon

Grave Stele of Hegeso

Date: 410 BCE

Location: Athens, Greece

Material: Marble

Artist: Kallimachos

Content: Funerary, found in a cemetery meant to commemorate Hegaso/Shows Hegaso examining a piece of jewelry

Nike adjusting her sandal

Date: 410 BCE

Location: Temple of Athena, Acropolis

Material: Marble

Content: Nike represented victory during Greek War / Part of a frieze around the top of the temple

Athenian Agora

Date: 600 BCE - 150 CE

Location: Athens, Greece

Material: marble

Content: represents Greek expirement of democracy (open markets, government, philosophical teachings)

Winged Victory of Samothrace

Date: 190 BCE

Location: Somathrace, Greece

Material: Marble

Content: portrayed as a masthead of a naval boat/ represented victory for naval battles/ good example of Greek Hellenistic sculpture (360 view, movement and shape, eroticism)

The Pergemon Alter

Date: 175 BCE

Location: Pergemon

Material: marble

Content: Built by the Attalid empire to claim legitimacy as Alexander the Greats inheritors / Represents a battle between the the Olympian gods and the Giants

The Seated Boxer

Date: 100 BCE

Location: Rome

Material: Bronze, Copper

Content: Hellensitic(evokes emotion)/ May have been a good luck charm for athletes

Niobedes Krater

Date: 450 BCE

Location: Athens, Greece

Material: Clay

Content: depicts Red figure technique in Greek pottery / used for mixing water and wine for ceremonies / one side depicts the killing of Niobedes children, other side depicts Hercules surrounded by heroes.