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Kriophoros, 7th Century

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‘ram-bearer’, found in Crete

Bronze statuette - possibly Hermes or a mortal shepard

Stalk and mass below from the direct casting channel

Heavy ‘cretan’ features - large almond eyes, high eyebrows (like kouros)

Cretan loin-cloth

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Nikandre Kore

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7th Century BC, Delos

Dedication to Artemis

Very little indication of the female form aside from waist and slightly defined chest - left arm missing

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Sacred Gate Kouros

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600-590 BC, Athens

Bulging eyes are an attic feature - schematic pectorals - legs and left hand mostly gone

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Sounion Kouros

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590 BC, Southern most region of Attic Peninsula

Found in Sanctuary of Poseidon, colossal scale

Defined, schematic knee caps and ears

Muscles on back and hair are very geometric

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Bronze Kriophoros Statuette, 6th Century BC

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Found in Sparta

Clothing makes it easier to cover the joints between pieces with folds

Example of statue archetype other than Kouros

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Samian Kouros

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6th Century BC, Found in the Heraion of Samos

According to verticle inscription on the left thigh of the kouros - dedicated by Isches, son of Rhesis

Very soft approach to muscles, clear veins of blue in the marble

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New York Kouros

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6th Century BC, Attica

Purpose unknown - stylistically Attic but marble Naxian

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Kleobis and Biton

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580 BC, Delphi

Thought to be deliberately archaising
focus on robust, curved forms rather than patterning as with Athenian

Names come from Herodotus - sculptor thought to be from Argos

Example of dioskouroi? twin gods? Castor and Pollux
Delphi perfect place to display wealth

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Moscophoros

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570 BC, Athens
‘calf-bearer’
Archaic hairstyle

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Berlin Kore

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570 BC, Attica, found in Keratea (east)
Pattern of folds in fabric highly stylised - accentuated the hips and waist
Holding Pomegranite - funerary

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Volomandran Kouros

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560 BC, Attica
Middle Archaic style
Muscles are softened, less schematic

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Ptoion Kouros

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550 BC, Boiotia
Emphasis on inverted v of abdominals
Thin lips and longer face could be a regional style

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Piraeus Apollo

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Late 6th Century BC, Port of Athens
found in warehouse with other art from various periods - burned down by Sulla
Possibly deliberately Archaising
Example of a pose change in bronze
One of the few kouroi which clearly depicts a god - would have held bow and patera (reciprocal religious mentality)

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Herakles being presented to Olympus Pediment

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Second quarter 6th Century BC, original location unknown
Made from limestone

speculative idea of politicising sanctuary art - no written evidence

Peisistratus - imagery pf Herakles constructs his own Heraklean alter-ego

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East Pediment of Olympia

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6th Century BC, Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Pelops chariot story (Pelops bribes someone to replace lynch pins with wax and the charioteer dies thus curing the Pelops house)

Divine authority, consequences of breaking an oath

Compositionally static

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West Pediment of Olympia

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6th Century BC, Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Centauromachy - represents defeat of Hubris and Barbarism (calm faces on humans, savage expression on centaur)
Figures surge towards the centre
Often given as example of how theatre informed the change in art (athenocentric)

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Phrasikleia Kore

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550-40 BC, Merenda, Attica
Parian marble, over life-sized
Brightly painted red dress, incised decoration of rosettes and swastikas - most likely guilded as well
Funerary monument for unmarried girl

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Merenda Kouros

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540 BC, Attica 
Painted hair, eyebrows, nipples and pubic hair 
Smaller eyes (local style?)
Softer muscles 
Less exaggerated waist to hip ratio 
Snail curls in hair
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Lyons Kore

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540 BC, Acropolis

Distinct muscles in the arms for a woman

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Kroisos Kouros

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Anavyssos, 530 BC
Exaggerated thighs (idealising proportions)
Geometric hair - fashion older kouroi
Stiff posture
Warrior-athelete elite type - upper class access to gymnasia
Lines of symmetry: verticle, v shape of groin and upper abdomen
Found at coastal location - trading

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Peplos Kore

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530 BC, Acropolis
Painted scenes of animals on skirt - usually utilised for a goddess, expensive paint and inlay
very small waist, simple skirt with limited folding

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Aristion Stele

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520 BC, Near Marathon, Attica
Bearded hoplite soldier
Would have been brightly coloured
Over 2m high

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Antenor Kore

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520 BC, Athens 
Inlaid eyes, came with incription 
Over 2m tall 
Bronze used in jewellery 
Parion chiton and heavy diagonal Himation
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Red Shoes Kore

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510 BC, Athens
Parian Marble
Very unusual proportions
some polychrome still visible in deeper folds of the skirt

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Getty Kouros

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c.530, Provincence UNKNOWN - possibly a forgery
Exemplifies the difficulty of dating stylistically, the style is attic, the marble is Thasian, the top half is seemingly much earlier Archaic than the bottom half which is highly naturalistic
Flaw in the marble on the forehead also very unusual - many examples of abandoned projects when such imperfections were revealed

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Tyrannicides

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514 BC, Athens (plaster casts found in Baiae - heavy lid suggest many copies made to cause a build up)
Bronze
Version which survives is the second - because they are depicted like this on vases while the originals were still in Persia - originals probably kouroi, returned by Alexander
Harmodios: young, with sword raised (beardless and boyish like Kritios boy)
Aristogeiton: older, blade low, draping cloak for protection
severe style

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Metopes from Heraion

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510 BC, South West Coast of Italy (Paestum)
PROSCRIPTIVE temple decoration: depicting morally deplorable figures like Sisyphus, Tantalus and Tityus (the sinner’s cycle) rather than instructive of pious behaviour

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The Blonde Boy

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Earth 5th Century BC, Acropolis
Example ofr variation in hairstyle - waves rather than rolls or long plaits - the shift from long hair to short for aristocratic youths

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Kritios Boy

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480 BC, Acropolis
Acropolis left in ruins 30 years after Persian sach- could have been sculpted at any point within this time or before
Rolled hair radiating from crown, deeply incised geometric hair - eyes made seperately and insertef as with bronze castes
Body and neck seperate - suggests head could be swapped out because of the clean break

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Relief of Boy

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470 BC, Temple of Athena, Sunium
Pensive mood comveyed in image of boy crowning himself - an established archetype
Distant in mood from archaic - subtler, less emphatic use of conventional poses and types
Personal votive example

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Relief of Athena

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470 BC, Acropolis
Pensive head bowed, possibly even a mourning position - potentially facing plaque of athenain dead

Goddess as a civic votive - has her plumed helmet and public staff

Gravestone production in Athens halts at beginning of 5th century until 430 BC

In this period annual state burials and funerary oration began

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Penelope from Persepolis

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Persepolis, 460 BC
Greek marble and figure - cannot be original of Roman copies because it was buried during Alexander’s sack of the city in 330 BC
Flow of fabric / composition of body are late Classical - revealing the form of the woman with the illusion of wet fabric creating translucence

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The Riace Bronzes

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Shipwreck Riace, c.460 BC

Stance in in the severe style, anatomy suggests a later date
Debate surrounding whether made by the same sculptor or in the same studio, perhaps from the same caste with small adjustments
Brash youth vs more relaxed elder reminiscent of the Tyrannicides - would have been holding weapons and shields

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Female Figure Supporting Incense Burner

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Delphi, c.460 BC
Naturalistic folding of Peplos - compare with Delphi Charioteer
Inference of the positioning of the female form in the folding over the left leg which is protruding, weight on back leg

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Motya Charioteer

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Motya (Phoenician settlement off coast of Sicily), c.470 BC (stratigraphic layer associated with destruction of motya in 397 gives terminus ante quem - stylistcally early snail curls)
Swinging contraposto pose, left hand resting on hip, right arm raised (both lost)
Wearing long Chiton
Almost wet drapery effect - genitals, posterior and muscles clearly visible

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Delphi Charioteer

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Delphi, 470 BC
Best surviving bronze
Severe style
Commemorates the victory of Polyzalus of Gela in Pythian Games
inlaid eyes - columnar form, geometric skirt folding
Classical facial expression
Tilt of the head is main departure from Kouroi and the naturalistic rendering of the feet

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Porticello Head

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Southern Italy (offshore), c.450 BC
Thinning locks, impressive beard and mustache slightly departing from established types - could be a ‘portrait’
Probably elderly citizen or a centaur, whilst idealising - still an element of aging in the forehead lines and a hooked nose
Difficult to date - hair could be zeus or aristogeiton rather than later 5th century

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Diskobolus of Myron

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original from c.460 BC, most referenced copy from Terme, 140 AD

Stillness within action - moment between backswing and forward thrust
Reaction to Archaic ideal of symmetry - deliberately contrasting arch of arms with straight lines of bent legs
Still has internal balance and proportion
Details realistic, anatomy still static

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Artemision God

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Cape Artemision (Northern Euboea), c.460-50 BC
Found on important trade route 
Hurling either lightening bolt or trident (zeus or poseidon?)
Anatomy incorrect, one arm longer than the other, torso should be dramatically affected / twisted by the activity of the limbs (frontality maintained) 
Pose can only be properly viewed from front
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Athena Promachos (Athena of War)

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Acropolis, 456 BC
Colossal, bronze, situated on Acropolis via Propylaea, statue lost - survives only through description of size and materials - could be seen from ships in port

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Athena Parthenos - Athena the Virgin (also known as Chriselephantine statue of Athena)

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Acropolis, 438 BC
Made from Ivory and Gold, also Colossal - survives to us in smaller marble copies
Athena holding Nike in right hand, left hand supported on Aegis which shelters a snake, dressed in Attic Peplos - wearing helmet with a Sphinx and Pegasi

Base (reconstructed from Roman copies and Pliny) depicts what seems to be creation of Pandora (Pausanias, Pliny) - possibly pandora the local earth goddess rather than gift-giver

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Athena Nike Parapet Frieze

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Athens, 410 BC
Created in late Peloponnesian War - after several Athenian defeats
Depicts Nike adjusting her sandle
Good example of the wet drapery effect - emphasis more on the movement of the garmet than the figure itself

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Marble Head of warrior

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Aegina, Temple of Aphaia, 5th Century BC

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Stele of Hegeso

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Athens, c.410 BC
Woman depicted in private setting but on public display because of visibility of the Necropolis
Tension between Oikos and Polis
High backed chair typical of private interior scenes in vases
slave v free born woman - slave has simpler clothes and hair (in snood vs elaborate updo)
Perhaps holding necklace - damage and loss of plychrome makes it unclear
Attention of both characters on jewellery not audience or eachother
why is she not depicting raising children or working at loom?

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Stele of Ampharete

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c.400 BC, Athens
Depicts grandmother and child (epitaph) - lack of differentiation between ages of women (defined by childhood, young woman and married not necessarily age - Stears)
Ideals of fertility and associations between women, death and loss already exist - just reinforced

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Kephisodotus Statue of Peace and Wealth

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Roman first century AD copy of 375 BC Bronze original, Athens
Dated this way because it was erected in Agora between 375-360: cult of Eirene introduced to Athens in 375, Panathenaic Amphorae dated to 360 show images of the statue
Eirene = young woman wearing peplos and himation, holding sceptre and young Ploutos

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Stele of Pausimache

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c.350 BC, Athens
Figure views herself in same way as passer-by (looking at herself in the mirror)
Adornment generally not considered a virtue, but her epitaph notes her goodness and good sense
Female homeric heroisaton - elaborate god-gifted jewellery in epic?

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Marathon Boy

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Aegean Sea, off coast of Marathon, 340 BC
Ridgeway suggests the left hand held a tray of cups for guests
Fillet with leaves could make him an athlete but doesn’t look typically athletic unless its a very specific sport
Exaggerated contraposto and soft musculature - late classical / early hellenistic (associated with Praxiteles)

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Terme Boxer

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c.330-50 BC, found in Terme, Italy
Not idealising - cauliflower ears, broken nose, scarred face
Possible use of different Alloys of bronze to create the effect of bruising (evolution of polychrome)
lips, wounds and scars originally inlaid with copper
Face is expressive

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Aphrodite of Knidos

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original 4th Century BC, survives in copies from 150 BC

First nude female cult statue (female nudes on pots and cretan goddess figurines - probably votive)

left hand holds towel, right hand covers pubic area

Writings believed to by Lucan - tell story of man who snuck into the temple at night tried to have sex with the statue, leaving it stained

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Hermes and Infant Dionysus

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4th Century BC, Olympia
Dionysus in left arm, weight carried through the fabric draping down. Right arm lost, beleived to have held a bunch of grapes to entertain the baby)
soft musculature, relaxed posture, domestic scenario

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Apollo Sauroktonos

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original 4th Century BC, survives in Roman copies (1st Century AD)
Leaning against a tree, pointing arrow (lost) at lizard perched their
Relaxed posture, soft musculature, somewhat bathetic scenario

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Demeter of Knidos

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c.450 BC, Knidos

Heavy folding in fabric
Quintessential depiction of a deity, seated in complex robes
Missing arms and hands
More of a matriarchal depiction of a goddess - the hairstyle, serene expression, slightly mature facial features highlighting role as mother (fertility goddess, dualing approach when compared with Aphrodite)
Possibly cult, possibly votive - a little bit small for the featured votive statue

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Piraeus Artemis A

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Second half of 4th Century BC, Piraeus
Clay remnant where the quiver would have been attached to back diagonally. Pose is one which Artemis and Apollo sare on pots and in other statues
Hand would have held phiale (offering bowl)
Though seems to be based on archaic model it had the polyclitan stance
Bronze eyelashes and inlayed eyes - one is missing
Melon style hair

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Piraeus Artemis B

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Second half of 4th Century BC, Piraeus 
Smaller of the two, less well preserved 
Right side of head distorted by swelling, bronze crumbling in places 
More Praxitelean stance 
intact quiver
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Temple of Artemis (Pediment), Corcyra

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Archaic Temple, Corcyra (Modern Corfu)
Pedimental sculture depicts Medusa and two Panthers
Highly schematic and geometric (hair) in design - the form of Medusa resembles the geometric Swastika
Distinctly not programmatic - very little tying the imagery to Artemis (Panthers and the hunt?), nor does it tie the temple to the regional mythology

relief style is very flat in the sense that though it prodrudes out relatively far in places this doesn’t effect the roundness of the forms

girdle of intertwined snakes = fertility symbol

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Chryselephantine Statues at Delphi

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All Mid-sixth Century, Delphi - identities all quite speculative, ivory has been blackened over time, eyes and eyebrows inlayed
Artemis - golden tiara and earrings
Apollo - archaic smile, hair is gilded silver

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Siphnian Treasury Pediment

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525 BC, Delphi
Supported by Caryatid rather than normal columns
East Pediment - only surviving - Herakles and Apollo competing for Delphic tripod

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Siphnian Treasury Frieze art

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East frieze - Assembly of gods in Trojan War - arguing, and a duel over a dead warrior
North Frieze - gigantomachy (old order vs new) - this was visible from the sacred way as they ascended to the oracle
West frieze - very little survives, believed to have been the judgement of paris but the identity of the goddess interpreted as Aphrodite is contested - no archaic examples of Aphrodite depicted with a necklace - that’s more hellensitic
South frieze - significant portions missing, theme unclear

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Athenian Treasury Metopes

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510-480 BC, Delphi
Depict various scenes of Theseus and Herakles

Athenian local mythology with Herakles as a foil?

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Temple of Zeus (Olympia) Metopes

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463 BC, Olympia
depicting the 12 labours of Herakles, increasing in age as they progress (as designated by the facial hair) - along short sides of the temple, not in chronological order
Grouped by proximity to the region with six based in Pelops, others far off
Badly damaged, their positions are mostly speculative based on where the detached ones were found, Pausanias source for other half

Herakles has expressive facial expressions, not as much as the centaurs but still scenario specific

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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (frieze)

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c.350 BC, Halicarnassus (modern Turkey, on coast) - Mausolus from Caria (Anatolian)
Depicts the amazonomachy - very typical for a greek temple, stock imagery rather than programme
Hunting frieze - aspect of a king’s life in times of peace - demonstration of his power
Centauromachy - stock temple imagery from Greece

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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (free standing sculpture)

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Mausoleus and Artemisia - free standing sculptures in a late classical style - exaggerated folding of fabric. Face of Artemisia destroyed, over life-size

Lions - guardian animals in the Anatolian tradition

Horse and chariot at top - culminating point, visible from the harbour

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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (architectural elements)

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3 main parts: lofty podium or base, a colonnade of 36 columns arranged (probably) 11 by 9 above this (excavation shows these to be of the ionic order), above this a pyramid shaped roof reducing to a platform which had a crowning four-horse chariot

pyramidal roof might be egyptising (although could just be interpreted as an ornate base for the chariot statues)

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Stele of Eupheros

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Kerameikos, 430 BC
Young man with strigil in himation with headband
traces of painted animals in recessed centre of pediment, found also with smaller fragmentary plain pedimental stele (main statue buried relatively soon after its erection)

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Stele of Prokleides, Archippe and Prokles

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Attica, 330 BC
reaffirmation of family unity at a time when it is tested by the loss of a family member and the gender-divisive ideology of the polis which controls the space where the funerary rites take place​

dead person is not marked out by a certain pose or position - not meant ot be singled out but is rather still a member of the idealised oikos presented ​

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Purpose of Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

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Halicarnassus, 350 BC
Built at a high vantage point, not in necropolis - coastal location, trading port
Whilst it does function as a literal tomb – Mausolus was not only a dynast – he had shifted the capital of his land to Halicarnassus and thus in a sense (re)founding Halicarnassus or at the very least redefining its significance – creating a founding mythology for the city

Kind of a ‘Heroon’ -> in the same way many Greek cities claim a hero as their founder, for a very obvious example -> Theseus founding Athens

Remains of food offerings found at the site of the Mausoleum -> eggs, chicken, cuts of goat and ox (typical offerings of the middle east rather than of Greece)

resting place for native anatolian, known to have spoken greek and admired Greece greatly, given power by the persian empire

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Nereid Monument Pediments

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Xanthos (Lycia) c.390 BC
East Pediments: Arbinnas and wife depicted in similar positions to Zeus and Hera (Ian Jenkins) on east frieze of Parthenon - with smaller figures (probably children) and a dog

West Pediment: very little survives, seems to be soldiers going into battle

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Nereid Monument Friezes

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Xanthos (Lycia) c.390 BC

Greater Podium Frieze: generalised scenes of war and conflict - not obvious Greeks vs Persians or Amazons - mostly just greeka

Upper Podium Frieze: Arbinnas depicted in several ways (possibly showing his conquests) - point of interest is a Persian depiction with a Parasol like bas relief of Xerxes in Persepolis - very persian

Architrave Frieze: More combat sequences and a Boar hunt and banquet preperations

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Nereid Monuments Free Standing Figures

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Generally believed to be sea nymphs - eleven figure survive (dolphin and cuttlefish statues found at their feet) - all have late-classical wind-blown fabric/ wet drapery effect

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Alexander Sarcophagus

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Sidon, late 4th century BC

Peculiar - inhumation in marble not very greeks (remains of linen in sarcophagi found with this one suggest a desire to preserve the body? Inscriptions also theatren to curse anyone who disturbs them - others not this one) - marble is greek medium for history, tombs like this are Macedonian (with owner cremated) - Pheonician patron

Long friezes: One of a hunt, one of a battle (similar imagery on short friezes)

Friezes generally considered to depict the most important events of Abdalonymos’ reign and his relationship to alexander (since he was king of Sidon because of Alexander)

Hunt frieze represents the greeks and persians hunting together - phoenician ruler shown prominently alongside Alexander - famous royal hunting park at sidon - possible intended setting → Krateros dedication at delphi employs similar themes of a famous lion-hunt to express special relationship to Alexander -> Abdalonymos is the protagonist of the hunt frieze not Alexander

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Portrait of Themistokles

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Original c.425 BC, Ostia (original dating is entirely subjective)

Less idealism than high classical statuary - prominant crease in brow suggests age and contemplation

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Portrait of Perikles

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Original c.425 BC - survives through Roman Copies - original date is up for debate

Very idealising and youthful - strong features, clear complexion suggesting man in his prime - beard suggest age and experience but this is not reflected in the features of his face - age at its most idealised

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Portrait of Homer

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Original c.460 BC - only survives in Roman Copies - original date subjective

Not accepted by all to represent Homer as blind - does seem to have eyes closed - tradition of blind bard through Demodocus and Teiresias (blind seer) - physical blindness expressing inner virtue - blindness enhancing memory - he probably wasn’t blind, just a trope

Archaising approach - beard is geometric, lends itself to myticism and mythological pre-history

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Nereid Monument cultural integrations

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Xanthos (Lycia) c.390 BC

Podium = persian tomb, Lycian style of pillars (and it’s a house tomb) Lycian tomb art depicting complimentary but contrasting themes on opposite sides of the monuments – east pediment vs west pediment

east pediment mimics zeus and hera in acropolis -> also very reminiscent of bas-relief in persepolis, persian hair style, many of the figures in full profile, -> attic stelae old type in front of persian king , bare chest but ‘greekness’ demonstrated in the slight deviations from full profile (second figure from left looking outward), the tiny bit deeper relief – parsegadae

Greek Sculpture 600-300 (4 decks)

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