2011 survey late_classical_and_hellenistic_periods
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Greece: Late Classical period and Hellenistic period
Transcript of 2011 survey late_classical_and_hellenistic_periods
Greece: Late Classical period and Hellenistic period
Greece: Late Classical period (ca. 400-323 BC)and Hellenistic period (ca. 323-31 BC)
Late Classical period events:
- Defeat of Athens by Sparta in 404 BC (Peloponnesian War)
- Founding of Athenian schools of philosophy by Plato and Aristotle in the 4th cent. BC
Hellenistic period events:
- Defeat of Athens and other Greek city-states by Phillip II of Macedon in 338 BC and rise of Empire of Alexander the Great (died 323 BC)
- Rise of Rome and gradual fall of successor states to the Empire of Alexander the Great. Death of Cleopatra in 30 BC
Late Classical Period
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos. Ca. 350-340 BC. (Roman copy)
Parthenon (late 5th cent. BC: High Classical period)
Temple of Aphaia (early 5th cent. BC: Late Archaic/Early Classic period)
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos. Ca. 350-340 BC(Roman copy)
High Classic
Late Classic
Archaic
Praxiteles, Hermes and infant Dionysos, ca. 340 BC
Praxiteles, Hermes and infant Dionysos, ca. 340 BC
Polykleitos, Doryphoros, 450 BC
Head of Alexander the Great. Pella, Greece, 3rd cent. BC
Battle of Issus. Original ca. 330-310 BC (1st cent. BC Roman copy from Pompeii, Italy), mosaic
Battle of Issus mosaic reconstructionRestorer working on a reconstruction of the mosaic depicting the Battle of Issus between the forces of Alexander the Great and the Persian Emperor Darius III. The mosaic was found in the ruins of Pompeii, near Naples, Italy. The original is kept in the archaeological museum in Naples, but this copy was installed in Pompeii in 2005. The reconstruction took 22 months and used around 2 million mosaic tiles (tesserae).
Polykleitus the Younger, Theater at Epidauros, Greece, 350 BC
Erectheion, Acropolis, Athens, 421-405 BC
Polykleitus the Younger, Corinthian capital, Greece, 350 BC
Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders
Dying Gaul. Roman marble copy of a bronze original of ca. 230 BC
Hellenistic Period
Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, warrior from east pediment (early 5th cent. BC)
Temple of Aphaia,Aegina, warrior from west pediment (late 6th cent. BC)
Dying Gaul. Roman marble copy of a bronze original of ca. 230 BC
Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, warrior from east pediment (early 5th cent. BC)
Athanadoros. Laocoon and his sons, 1st c. CE
Nike of Samothrace, 190 BC
Aphrodite (Venus de Milo) by Alexandros of Antioch, , 150 BC
Sleeping satyr (Barbarini Faun), 190 BC
Polyeuktos. Demosthenes, ca. 280 BC
Old Woman, ca. 150 BC
