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

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5 Summary of features: Simple capitols Wide, solid columns Divided frieze (into metopes and triglyphs)

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8  Summary of features: More slender columns Capitol in the shape of a volute Undivided frieze

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11  Summary of features: Acanthus leaves in capitol Undivided frieze

12 Ionic Corinthian Doric

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15  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 (430-420 BCE).

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21 Porch of the Maidens

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28  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)

29  Archaic Style (6 th century)  Severe Style (early 5 th century)  High Classical Style (5 th century)  Fourth Century Style(4 th century)  Hellenistic(3 rd - 2 nd centuries)

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31  Rigidity  Frontality  Symmetry  Egyptian influence  Interest in human body  No motion  Archaic smile  Kouros, kore

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33  Interest in human body  Contrapposto  More relaxed posture  No motion

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35  Depiction of the perfect human body  Canon of proportions  Restrained motion  Contrapposto  Incipient curve  Doryphoros (450-440 BCE, by Polykleitos)

36 Pediment of the Parthenon ( 448-442 BCE ) by Phidias Diskobolos (460-450 BCE) by Myron

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39  Dionysia: competition in Athens  3 tragedies and one satyr-play  Chorus: group who dances and sings

40  Actors: Only 3 or 4.  Actors: Males wearing masks

41 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

42 Main Athenian dramatists: AeschylusPersians, Oresteia SophoclesAntigone, Oedipus EuripidesMedea AristophanesLysistrata (comedy)

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