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

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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