classics - greek architecture

pediment of temple of atremis at corcya

date: 580 BC

material: limestone

significane: early archaic architecural sculpture depicting a variety of myths on one pediment

metopes of temple c, selinus

date; 575-550 BC

material; limestone

narrative: herkles and kerkopes

ionic frieze of siphnian treasury, delphi

date; 525 BC

material: marble

narrative: gigantomachy (north), trojan war (east), abduction scene (south), judgement of paris (west)

significance: depicts four different myths

pediment of temple of Aphaia, Aegina

date; 510 BC

material; limestone

narrative; second sack of troy with paris and ajax

significance; late archaic depictions of the second sack of troy

east pediment of the tmeple of Aphaia

date; 490-48 BC

material; limestone

narratives; first sack of troy with herakles and telamon

significance: early classical depiction of the first sack of troy

east pediment of temple of zeus at olympia

date; 460 BC

material; marble

narrative; contest between pelops and oinamaos

west pediment, temeple of zeus

date; 460 BC

material; marble

narrative: centauromachy with apollo in the middle

herakles and the stables of augeas

date; 460 BC

significance; metopes depicting individual labour of herakles

east pediment; parthenon, birth of athena

date; 437-432 BC

material; marble

west pediment; contest between Athena and Poseidon

date; 436-432 BC

material; marble

iconic frieze; the parthenon procession

date; 442-437 BC

material; marble

significance; a unique occasion where architectural sculpture depicts a moral custom, the panathenaic procession

doric frieze; metope

date; 447-442 BC

narrative; centauromachy

significance; metopes showing different myths on each side of the parthenon

Heracles and the Cretan bull

Date:460 BC

Temple of Zeus

Heracles and the garden of the Hesperides

Date: 460 BC

Temple is Zeus