Art and Architecture Flashcards
Plutarch Pericles 12.1
‘brought the most delightful adornments to Athens , and the greatest amazement to the rest of mankind.’
Plutarch Pericles 12.5
‘his desire that the unwarlike among common labourers should not be deprived of the national income.’
Plutarch Pericles 13.1
‘All of them were complete in the heyday of a single administration
Plutarch Pericles 13,5
An exact reproduction of the great king’s pavillion
the squill-head zeus!lo here hie comes, the odeum like a cap on his cranium
Plutarch Pericles 12.2
with her own enforced contributions to the war we are gilding a bedizening our city.’
Plutarch Pericles 12.6
Stone, bonze, ivory, gold, ebony and cypress wood,
Pausanias 1.28.5
There is first a bronze Athena, tithe from the persians who landed at marathon
Plutarch Pericles 31
The reputation of his works nonetheless brought the burden of jealous hatred onto Pheidias
Thucydides 1.10
if in fact the same thing were to happen to Athens, the one would conjecture that it was twice as powerful as it in fact was