Classics

When was Pericles funeral speech

430 BCE

How does Pericles describe Athens

a city with ‘equal justice for all’

When was the Diskoblos sculpted

450 BCE

Who were the architects of the Parthenon

Ictinus and Callicrates

Entasis Effect

The columns swell in the middle to counteract a optical effect where columns with straight sides appear to be slenderer in their middles and to have a waist

How big is the parthenon

30.9 by 69.5m

Metopes

West - Greeks vs Amazons North - Greeks vs Trojans

Freize

Humans depicted alongside gods in Panathenaia to show Athens good

How long is Parthenon Freize

1m x 160m

9:4

Physical embodiment of ideal human form (refernce)

What parts of the parthenon had the 9:4 Ratio

Width to height, middle of one column to middle of another vs one columns width

When did the Persian Wars start and end

492–449 BC

Who led the Persian War

Athens

Why were the Spartans not involved in the Battle of Marathon (490 BCE)

They were having a religious festival

Antigone Para 1

Burial - women in athens, athenians think good as evidenced by sea, respect for the gods was vital

Antigone Para 2

Marriage ‘With no part in the bridal-song, the bridal bed, denied all joy of marriage, raising children’

Antigone Para 3

Disobeys Creon law, he is kyrios, ecclesia ‘I will raise a mound for him, for my dear brother’ ‘never at my hands will the traoiter be honered above the patriot’

Who carved athene and marsayas

Myron

When was athene and marsayas made

450 BC

A m para 1

Restraint and rythmos - right leg outwards, torso frontal, left leg moving bent at knee, arm outstretched in warning 

A m para 2

Expression and restrain animal tendenicies - wide eyes and forrowed brow, open mouth - harsh, Sophrosyne

A m Para 3

Hubris - v shape - right arm and spear lean exagerate aulos, smooth and exagerated movements, athena helmet to remind that she is god