Classical Greek Art and Architecture
Pediments from the Temple of Aphaea, Aegina, 490s-480s (Biers, 176-80)
Model of Temple of Zeus, Olympia, ~470-457 (Biers 218-23)
Metopes from the Temple of Zeus, Olympia; Cerberus, Cretan Bull, Augean Stables, Apples of Hesperides, Stymphalian Birds
West Pediment: Centauromachy
Omphalos Apollo, Athens (NM) Striding God of Artemisium (NM 15161) Sounium Stele (NM) 0.59 m (Biers 215-16)
Parthenon, 447-323 (Biers 226-35)
Parthenon
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Phidias and the Elgin Marbles, oil, 1868 View of the western end (frieze 1 m high) Diagram of the frieze
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East frieze
Parthenon, Western and Eastern Pediments; left side of Eastern Pediment
Parthenon, right side of Eastern Pediment
Nashville Parthenon, Athena Phidias, Olympian Zeus, reconstruction
Parthenon, 447-432 (Biers, 201-4)
Curvature of the Nashville Parthenon columns; Inclination of the columns
Erechtheum, 421-406 (Biers 204-5)
Erechtheum, details of N porch
Temple of Apollo Epikourios, Bassae, 420s (frieze in BM) (Biers 208-9)
Polykleitos, Doryphoros, 440s (Naples Museo Archaeologico ), 2.12 m Diadoumenos, 430s (from Delos, Athens NM 1826), 1.95 m (Biers 225-26)
Temple of Athena Nike, Parapet, Sandalbinder, ~410(AM 973), 1 Temple of Athena Nike, Parapet, Sandalbinder, ~410(AM 973), 1.05 m; frieze, 420s, 0.46 m (Biers 236)
Attic Black-figure Dinos by Sophilos, The Funeral Games of Patroklos, ~ 580 (NM15499), ~8 cm
Exekias, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Game, detail from a belly amphora, ~540-530 (Vatican 344)
Exekias, cup. Dionysius crossing the sea, ~ 535 (Munich, Antikensammlung 2044), 11.5 cm
Belly amphora by the Andocides Painter, Ajax and Achilles play, 520s (Boston 01.8037), ~0.50 m (cf Biers pl 13)
Pelike by the Pan Painter: Heracles and Bousiris, ~470 (Athens NM 9683)
Achilles Slaying Penthesileia: Exekias, ~530; Berlin Painter, ~490, Penthesileia Painter, ~460s (Biers 238)
White-ground lekythos; the Achilles Painter, Farewell to a Warrior, 450-440 (NM 1818), ~0.40 m (Biers plate 11)
Hegeso Stele, from Kerameikos, ~ 400 (Athens NM 3624), 1 Hegeso Stele, from Kerameikos, ~ 400 (Athens NM 3624), 1.58 m; Piraeas Stele, early IV (Athens NM 726), 1.30 (Biers 271-74)
View of the Agora from the north (www.worldhistory.biz)