Ancient Greece

Question 1

Mantiklos Apollo

Answer 1

SIZE: small

MATERIALS: bronze

LOCATION: museum

ANCIENT TRADITION: Greek

BELIEF SYSTEM: polytheistic

INFORMATION/STATEMENTS
- Scholars aren’t sure who the statue represents
- Inscription on thighs in Theban
- Depiction of Apollo? Or Human named Mantiklos?
- legs stop at knee
- thin waist, triangulated torso

Question 2

Kritos Boy

Answer 2

SIZE: not-life size (small)

MATERIALS: marble

LOCATION: museum

ANCIENT TRADITION: Greek
BELIEF SYSTEM: polytheistic

INFORMATION/STATEMENTS:
- stance is contrapposto (counterbalance)
- Kristos = person who created him, not who he depicts
- head found separate from torso
- legs stop at knee, arms stop at elbow

Question 3

Centauromachy (Centaur Fighting Lapith)

Answer 3

SIZE: small

MATERIALS: marble

LOCATION: museum

ANCIENT TRADITION: Greek

BELIEF SYSTEM: polytheistic

INFORMATION/STATEMENTS:
- depicts battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs
- metope on South Side of Parthenon
- Lapith gave Centaurs wine at a weeding of a Lapith King, Centaurs got drunk and ruined the ceremony with a huge fight (humans won)

Question 4

Aphrodite of Knidos

Answer 4

SIZE: life-size

MATERIALS: marble

LOCATION: museum

ANCIENT TRADITION: Greek

BELIEF SYSTEM: polytheistic

INFORMATON/STATEMENTS:
- Original statue is lost, Roman copy of a marble original
- First nude goddess
- Venus Pudica pose (covering private area)
- no arms

Question 5

Seated Boxer

Answer 5

SIZE: life-size

MATERIALS: bronze with copper inlays

LOCATION: museum

ANCIENT TRADITION: Hellenistic, Greek

BELIEF SYSTEM: polytheistic

INFORMATION/STATEMENTS:
- sculpture is hollow
- older athlete
- emotive
- shift away from youth
- found in ruins of Constantine’s bath