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Week 6
October 6, 2010
Readings: Pages 120 – 141(the rest of the Greek chapter)
We will be finishing up Greece today and Monday – on Monday, we will
compare/contrast Ancient Greece to the Roman Empire
Image to use for quiz questions 6, 7 and 10
Entasis
Mixture of Doric and Ionic
Subject matter of the metopes
• West side: Greeks vs. Amazons
• North side: Greeks vs. Trojans
• East side: Gods vs. Giants
• South side: Centaurs vs. Lapiths
Centaur
Lapith
Parthenon West Pediment – Athena and Poseidon battle for the rights to the city of Athens.
East Pediment – Birth of Athena from Zeus’ Head
Nashville
Phidias, Marshals and Young Women from the "Panathenaic Procession" East Frieze, Parthenon
Panathenaic prize amphora
Erechtheion – built on the old temple to Athena Polias that was destroyed by the Persians, 421 – 405 bce, hodgepodge of design styles, architect unknown
Comparison of Sculptures
Ladies First. . . .
Archaic
Classical
Praxiteles
350 bc – Roman copies
425 bc
250 – 220bc Hellenistic
Hellenistic
Hellenistic
And, now, the gentlemen . . .
Archaic
Classical
Polykleitos
460 – 450 bc
Warrior of Riace
Contrapposto
Hellenistic
Laocoön and His SonsAthanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes
Geometric 900 – 700 bce
Archaic 600 - 480 bce
Classical 480 – 350 bce
Hellenistic 350 to 1st century ce
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