GREECE UNIT

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Athenian Agora

ARCHAIC through HELLINISIC, 6th-2nd century’s (600 BCE-150 BCE), Plan, Temple sits upon a hill, Panathenaic way, Spaced out, very open with many pathways leading through.

Anavysos Kouros

ARCHAIC, 6th century (530 BCE), Marble, memorial, grave marker, idolized, defined muscles, nude.

Peplos Kore from Acropolis

ARCHAIC, Marble, 6th century (530 BCE), static and calm. archaic smile, little to no detail, possibly Artemis.

Niobid Krater

Vase, 5th-1st Centuries (460-50 BCE), Clay, CLASSICAL, in action, spatial depth, figures in space, relative positions, narrative & mythological. (remember the story)

Doryphoros (the spear barrier)

Artist: Polykleitos, 5th Century (450 BCE), CLASSICAL, marble copy, 7.5 heads tall, contrapposto, S curve.

The Acropolis

Architects: Iktinos & Kallikrates, 5th century, CLASSICAL, 1 way in, fort, religious center, housed the elite, responded to tragedy, told their defeat through myths, (the tragedy was spersias invasion) was rebuilt with the same materials.

Pediment on Acropolis

West: Athena vs. Poseidon, East: Birth of athena, Frieze, High relief, Contrapposto, Calm, lack of drama.

Nike Adjusting her Sandal

CLASSICAL, 5th Century (410 BCE), parapet, off balance, in action, drapery that shows her body, high relief. 

Grave Stele of Hegeso

5th century (410 BCE), CLASSICAL, high relief, servant holding a jewelry box, hierarchy of size, foot rest, subtractive, funerary art.

Winged Victory of Samothrace

HELLENISTIC, 2nd Century, Nike, In a specific moment, about naval triumph, drama, naturalism, movement.

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena

at Pergamon, HELLENISTIC, 2nd Century (175 BCE), high drama, high relief, gigantomachy frieze of Greek gods vs. giants, motion, narrative.

Seated boxer

1st century (100 BCE), not an ideal, moment in time, tired and defeated posture, covered in scars, wrapped hands.