The North Side Of The Frieze Flashcards
What is there an element of and what is it depicting ?
An element of subtlety
Shows the Panathenaic procession
Where does the frieze climax ?
Above the eastern door which is also were the sun would come in from
What way does the frieze’s narrative run ?
Around the north side like the sacred way
- as members of the panathenaic procession would walk along they could look towards the festival and almost see themselves engrained upon it
What is the majority of the frieze taken up by ?
Young men and men mounting and riding horses within the procession
- Boardman argues that the 192 horsemen represent the number of men that died at Marathon and this element is a tribute to them
- it could be a homage and reflection to the men with the figures idealised in their youth
What is their evidence of thinking about athletic events ?
Figure 47 shows apobates as he jumps onto a chariot wearing armour
What are figures 37-43?
The Thallophoroi carrying olive branches and are older men (bearded) perhaps the judges of the festival
Who are figures 16-18 argued to be by Simon ?
Victors from the torch race carrying Hydria
How are the sacrificial animals depicted ?
Oxen being lead along to the sacrifice
- energetic, happy and youthful to be a good sacrificial
- fallacy of the willing victim the animals seem to be open to their death
Who commissioned it and when ?
Pericles in the fifth century
Celebrates Athenian identity within a wider Greek context
Both political, artistic and religious
Where does the ionic frieze run ?
It runs is due the temples Naos not on the outside
