Stewart Chapters 5-8 Flashcards
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Great Altar of Pergamon, now in Berlin, ca. 160 BC. Large Ionic building. Sacrificial altar, inner court. Relief – gigantomachy. Previously statues of muses and other decorations.
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Great Altar of Pergamon, ca. 160 BC. Zeus and Athena fight the Giants.
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Great Altar of Pergamon, ca. 160 BC. Athena fights two giants.
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Great Altar of Pergamon, ca. 160 BC. Four women, probably Muses, from the Altar’s outer colonnade.
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Great Altar of Pergamon, ca. 160 BC. Scenes from the Telephos frieze. Story of princess Auge, who eventually founds the cult of Athena at Pergamon.
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Great Altar of Pergamon, ca. 160 BC. Scene from the north wall of the Telephos Frieze. Herakles discovers baby Telephos exposed on Mount Parthenion. Herakles wears the lion skin and holds his club.
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Farnese Herakles, from the Baths of Caracalla at Rome, AD 212-216, after 4th century bronze statue by Lysippos.
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Head of Ajax, from a Roman copy after the “Pasquino” group. Hyper-emotional baroque style. Copy of a bronze of ca. 200-150 BC.
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The “Pasquino” group (plaster cast composite of Roman copies). Ajax carrying Achilles out of battle. Baroque style.
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Scylla attacks Odysseus’ ship in the Strait of Messina. Colossal marble group from Sperlonga (near Rome). Date of ca. 50-25 AD; probably for Roman aristocracy.
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Reconstruction of the Sperlonga grotto ca. 50-25 AD. Triclinium and fish hatchery. Stories of Odysseus.
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The Getty Bronze; life-size athlete from the Adriatic Sea off Italy, ca. 300 BC. Olympic victor. Probably intended to be melted down.
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Runner, life-size bronze from the Aegean Sea off Anatolia. Engineering to balance the statue on one foot. Late Hellenistic or Roman.
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Two wrestlers, bronze, possibly from Egypt. Expertise in casting it. Possibly second century BC.
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Life-size bronze horse and jockey, ca. 2nd century BC, from 1st century wreck off Cape Artemision, Greece. Once probably patinated black and gilded in places, with additional metal accessories. Technical skill e.g. thin walls.
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Life-size bronze seated boxer, Quirinal Hill in Rome. Unclear date, but Hellenistic.
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Head of life-size bronze seated boxer, Quirinal Hill in Rome. Unclear date, but Hellenistic.
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Homer, Roman marble copy of a bronze original of ca. 150-100 BC. Poetic, archaizing imaginary portrait.
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Apotheosis (deification) of Homer and the Mountain of the muses, signed by Archelaos of Priene, ca. 200-150 BC.
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Philitas of Kos, small marble bust from Crest (France), probably after a portrait by Hekataios, which was done in the third century BC. Roman noble collection.
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Menander, small bronze bust after a bronze of ca. 290 made by Praxiteles’ sons, probably for a Roman library.
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Socrates (469-399), Antisthenes the Cynic (445-365), Chrysippos the Stoic (280-204), and Epicurus (341-270). All Roman marble copies of fourth and third century bronzes.
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Statuette of a seated philosopher, bronze, from Italy. Small-scale Roman version of a 3rd century philosopher portrait.
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Digital reconstruction of the bronze portrait of Epicurus (341-270), ca. 270.
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Head of a philosopher, bronze, ca. late 3rd century, found on 1st century Antikythera shipwreck.
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Epicurus, incised marble double-herm from Rome. Copied from bronze statue of ca. 270.
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Zeno of Kition (332-262), founder of Stoicism; inscribed Roman marble bust after a bronze statue of ca. 260 (probably from Athens).
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Chrysippos of Soloi (280-204), Stoic philosopher. Reconstruction from multiple statues. Original probably from ca. 200 BC.
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Demosthenes (384-322), Roman marble copy from Italy of the honorific bronze from Athens erected around 280 BC. Reserve and humility in opposition to kingship and kingly poses.
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Politician, marble over-life-size portrait probably from western Anatolia, ca. 150-100 BC.
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The Worried Man, bronze head from honorary portrait on Delos, ca. 100 BC. Artistry, intense emotion.
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From left to right, Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XV Caesarion (Caesar’s son), worshiping Egyptian gods, mid-first century BC. From the Hathor sanctuary at Denderah.
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Oracular temple of Apollo at Didyma, begun ca. 300 by Paionios of Ephesus and Daphnis of Miletus and completed in Roman period. Massive ionic temple.
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Plan of the temple of Apollo at Didyma. Giant temple concealing a smaller ionic temple housing the archaic cult statue of Apollo.
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Reconstructed view, elevation, and plan of the Ionic temple and altar of Artemis Leukophryene at Magnesia-on-the-Maeander, designed ca. 200 BC.
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Watercolor of a fresco from an altar in a shop in the southern harbor at Delos, ca. 100 BC.
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Poseidon, colossal marble statue from Melos, ca. 150-100 BC. Dolphin; originally bronze trident.
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Heads of Artemis, Demeter, and the Titan Antyos from the colossal marble cult group form the temple of Despoina at Lykosoura in Arkadia, ca. 200 BC.
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Reconstruction of the Lykosoura cult group – Artemis, Demeter, Despoina, and the Titan Anytos; Temple of Despoina at Lykosoura in Arkadia, ca. 200 BC.
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The nymph Antiocheia as the Tyche of Antioch, Roman bronze statuette from Tortosa, Spain, after an over-life-size bronze by Eutychides of Sicyon, ca. 300 BC. Personified river Orontes swims at her feet.
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Sarapis, bronze statuette from Paramythia in northwestern Greece: a Hellenistic version of Bryaxis’ colossal gold-and-ivory cult statue made for the Sarapeion at Alexandra ca. 280 BC. Conflates Hades/Dionysus with Egyptian Apis/Osiris.
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A sacrifice in a rural sanctuary; marble votive relief, ca. 200-150 BC. Bearded god and consort receive homage from devotees.
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Aristonoe, daughter of Nikokratos of Rhamnous in Attica; marble portrait dedicated to Nemesis (Retribution) and Themis (Custom) by her son Hierokles to celebrate her election as a priestess of Nemesis. Probably third century.
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Faience wine jug (oinochoe) from a grave in southern Italy. Made in Alexandria for the ruler cult, showing Queen Arsinoe II as the goddess of good fortune (Agathe Tyche). Her unique double cornucopia. 3rd century BCE.
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Kleopatra VI Philopator Thea (reigned 51-30), black basalt statuette. Canonical Pharaonic style. Double cornucopia – Agathe Tyche/Arsinoe. Aphrodite.
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Aphrodite of Knidos, tinted plaster cast of a Roman version in the Vatican after the Parian marble original by Praxiteles, ca. 360 BC.
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Capitoline Aphrodite, Roman marble copy. Vase dates the Greek original to late 4th century.
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Crouching Aphrodite with Eros, Roman copy after an original of ca. 250-150 BC. Would have had water pouring over her from stream or nymph with pot.
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Aphrodite Anadyomene, emerging from the sea and ringing out her hair. Late Hellenistic alabaster version from Egypt after a 4th-century painting by Apelles.
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Fragmentary fresco from a house on Delos, ca. 150-100 BC. Bridge sits on a curtained bed, attended by two Erotes with a large cornucopia and others.
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Eros wearing Herakles’ lion skin and probably once resting hand on his club, polychrome terracotta statue – having taken them from Herakles.
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Eros courting Psyche, polychrome terracotta group, 1st century. Possibly from Myrina, Greece. Typical funerary offering.
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Sleeping hermaphrodite, Roman marble copy of a second-century original by Polykles. Contrasting front and back views.
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Hermaphrodite fighting off a satyr, Roman marble copy of a second-century bronze original. (three images – different angles).
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Cover from a bronze case mirror, grave in Corinth, ca. 325 BC. Sexual depictions of woman in “lioness” position – reference to the courtesan Leiaina.
