1. Golden Age of Athens

2. 1. Architecture Three architectural orders Seeking harmony and balance
Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
Seeking harmony and balance
Great influence in later architectural forms: Renaissance, Greek Revival (Neoclassic)

3. 1. Architecture: Doric order

4. 1. Architecture: Doric order

5. 1. Architecture: Doric order
Summary of features:
Simple capitols
Wide, solid columns
Divided frieze (into metopes and triglyphs)

6. 2. Architecture: Ionic order

7. 2. Architecture: Ionic order

8. 2. Architecture: Ionic order
Summary of features:
More slender columns
Capitol in the shape of a volute
Undivided frieze

9. 3. Architecture: Corinthian order

10. 3. Architecture: Corinthian order

11. 3. Architecture: Corinthian order
Summary of features:
Acanthus leaves in capitol
Undivided frieze

12. Which is which?
Ionic Corinthian Doric

13. Harmony vs. dynamism

14. American Neoclassical Architecture

15. 4. Athens and the Acropolis
Athens reemerges from the Persian wars as a ruling power.
The treasury of the Delian league is transferred to Athens.
Pericles starts the reconstruction of the Acropolis ( BCE).

16. 4. The Acropolis today

17. 4. The Acropolis (reconstruction)

18. 5. The Propylea

19. 6. Temple of Athena Nike

20. 7. Statue of Athena Promachos

21. 7. The Erechtheion
Porch of the Maidens

22. 8. The Parthenon

23. 8. The Parthenon

24. 9. Statue of Anthena Parthenos

25. 10. Parthenon: Pediment
Athena and Poseidon fighting to become the protectors of Athens.
Birth of Athena (from Zeus’ head)

26. 10. Parthenon: Pediment

27. 10. Metopes

28. 11. Parthenon: Frieze Pediment Metopes
Frieze of the cella (inside the colonnade)

29. 11. Parthenon: Frieze (Panathenaic procession)

30. 11. Parthenon: Frieze (Panathenaic procession)

31. 12. The Parthenon’s significance
Public building project
Athena as protector of Athens
Political ideology regarding the barbaroi : iconography
Political ideology: Panathenaic festival and the community: civic pride/identity
Artistic arete : best architects (Ictinus, Callicrates and Mnesicles) and sculptor (Phidias)

32. 13. Sculpture Archaic Style (6th century)
Severe Style (early 5th century)
High Classical Style (5th century)
Fourth Century Style (4th century)
Hellenistic (3rd- 2nd centuries)

33. 13. Archaic Style (6th century)

34. 13. Archaic Style (6th century)
Rigidity
Frontality
Symmetry
Egyptian influence
Interest in human body
No motion
Archaic smile
Kouros, kore

35. 14. Severe Style (early 5th century)

36. 14. Severe Style (early 5th century)
Interest in human body
Contrapposto
More relaxed posture
No motion

37. 15. High Classical Style (5th century)

38. 15. High Classical Style (5th century)
Depiction of the perfect human body
Canon of proportions
Restrained motion
Contrapposto
Incipient curve
Doryphoros ( BCE, by Polykleitos)

39. 15. High Classical Style (5th century)
Pediment of the Parthenon
( BCE ) by Phidias
Diskobolos ( BCE)
by Myron

40. 15. High Classical Style (5th century)

42. 10. Sculpture
A B C D

43. 10. Sculpture
Archaic kouros (B) Severe style (C) Classical Period (A) Hellenistic (D)

44. 16. Athens: theater of Dionysius

45. 17. Greek theater Dionysia: competition in Athens
3 tragedies and one satyr-play
Chorus: group who dances and sings

46. 17. Greek theater
Actors: Only 3 or 4.
Actors: Males wearing masks

47. 17. Greek theater Tragedy:
Theme: Mortals cannot escape pain and sorrow
Objective:
To arouse pity and horror
Cathartic (purging) effect
Themes: legends of ancient dynasties
Originality lies in the treatment not in the plot

48. 17. Greek theater
Main Athenian dramatists: Aeschylus Persians, Oresteia Sophocles Antigone, Oedipus Euripides Medea Aristophanes Lysistrata (comedy)

49. 18. Athens and Sparta in 435