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Context: She is named for the peplos, thought to be one of the four traditional garments she is wearing.
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Context: Represents Polykleitos’s ideal masculine figure.
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Content: Six ergastines, young women in charge of weaving Athena’s peplos, are greeted by two priests.
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Theory: Not the Panathenaic procession but the story of the legendary Athenian king Erechtheus, who sacrificed one of his daughters to save the city of Athens; told to do so by the Oracle of Delphi.
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Function: Meant to sit on a fountain representing a figurehead on a boat; the fountain would splash water around the figure.
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Function: May have been a good luck charm for athletes; evidence of toes worn away from being touched.
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Elaborate Greek temple complexes were placed on a high hill, or acropolis, overlooking the city.
Greek temple architecture shows a reliance on few forms and develops these. And these has two innovations:
Temples are built with the post-and-lintel system in mind, the columns are never too widely set apart. The columns completely surround the temple core in a design called a peristyle.
Portico: an entranceway to a building having columns supporting a roof
Pediments: These are seated over the tops of columns, contain sculptures representing the heroic deeds of the god or goddess housed inside.
Cornice: It separates the upper and lower parts of a Greek temple.
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Technique: Red figure ware
Function: Ceremonial krater; practical kraters were used for mixing water and wine or storing liquids.
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History: Found in Orvieto, Italy; many Greek vases found in Etruscan tombs.
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Function: Roman floor mosaic, found in a house in Pompeii, based on an original Greek mural (?) painting.
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