Concurrent Dates
776 BCE | First Olympic games |
753 BCE | The Founding of Rome |
600 BCE | Mayan civilization begins in Mexico |
499-479 BCE | The Persian Wars |
147 BCE | Greece comes under Roman control |
30 BCE | Defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony by Octavian (Augustus Ceasar) |
Greek Art
Chapter 5
The People
Hellenes, Hellas
The Iliad and the Odyssey
Platonic Ideal
Man is the Measure of All Things
Anthropomorphism, Protagoras and the roots of Humanism
Geometric and Archaic Periods
9th-6th centuries BCE
Hero and Centaur (Herakles and Nessos?)
Greece. 8th century BCE bronze 5” high
Anavysos Kouros
Greece. 7th century BCE marble 6’ high
Kouros (Kouroi), archaic smile, daedalic sculpture
Peplos Kore from the Acropolis
Greece. 6th century BCE marble 4’ high
Classical Period
5th – 4th centuries BCE
Zeus (or Poseidon?)
Greece. 5th century BCE bronze 7’ high
Sculpture in the round
Niobides Krater, the Niobid Painter
Greece. 5th century BCE clay, red figure technique with white highlights
Red Figure, black figure
Diskobolos (Discus Thrower), by Myron
Roman marble copy after a bronze original
Italy. 5th century BCE 5’ high
Doryphoros (Spear Bearer), aka The Canon
Roman marble copy after a bronze original by Polykleitos
Italy. 5th century BCE 7’ high
contrapposto
The Acropolis
Athens, Greece. 5th century BCE
Pericles, The Persian Wars
Parthenon, by Iktinos and Kallikrates
The Acropolis, Athens, Greece. 5th century BCE
Elgin Marbles
Helios, horses, and Dionysus (Heracles?)
The Parthenon, Athens, Greece. 5th century BCE
Lapith versus centaur
The Parthenon, Athens, Greece. 5th century BCE marble 5’ high
Centaurmachy
Details of the Panathenaic Festival procession frieze
The Parthenon, Athens, Greece. 5th century BCE marble 4’ tall
Temple of Athena Nike
The Acropolis, Athens, Greece. 5th century BCE
Nike Adjusting her Sandal
Athens, Greece. 5th century BCE marble
Wet drapery
Grave Stele of Hegeso, Kallimachos
Athens, Greece. 5th century BCE marble and paint
Appropriation
Aphrodite of Knidos
Roman marble copy after an original by Praxiteles
Italy. 4th century BCE 7’ high
Hellenistic Period
4th BCE – 1st c CE
Athenian Agora and Stoa of Attalos II
Athens, Greece. 2nd century BCE
Agora
Reconstructed west front of the Altar of Zeus
Pergamon, Turkey. 2nd century BCE
Athena battling Alkyoneos
Detail from the Altar of Zeus at Pergamon
Pergamon, Turkey. 2nd century BCE 8’ tall
Gigantomachy
Nike of Samothrace
Greece. 2nd century BCE marble 8’ high
Barberini Faun
Italy. 3rd century BCE marble 7’ high
Venus de Milo, by Alexandros of Antioch on the Meander
Greece. 2nd century BCE marble 7’ high
Seated Boxer
Greece. 2nd century BCE bronze