...markers. male body idealized, broad shoulders, narrow waste, and deeply carved joints (athletic ideal). Kore/Korai is the female version of the Kouros. Archaic smile, heavy cloth draped over them=peplos, curling/stylized hair, round face. Painted pure white, marble, symmetrical face, body not symmetrical, “Business in the front, party in the back” ! Architecture: Sculpture and architecture are integrated in the pediments of the first Greek temples Temple of Artemis at Corfu (600 BC): Doric order, limestone, story of Medusa being slayed by Perseus on the pediment of the temple, central figure on pediment= medusa, situated in the traditional Archaic pose: bent leg, bent arm, and pinwheel posture to show running or flying. One of medusas children located on either side of her, Pegasus on the left, Chrysaor on the right (this might be because in the archaic period, one distinguished the central figure of the story by displaying his offspring). Perseus shown looking through his shield at medusa, protectors of the temple, Perseus slays two felines located on...
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...Mycenae. c. 1250 BCE. Funerary mask [Mask of Agamemnon], from the royal tombs at Mycenae, Greece. c.1600-1500 BCE. 6 ARCHAIC PERIOD [c.600-480 BCE] [c. 600-500 BCE] Temple of Hera I and II, Paestum, Italy, c. 550 and 500 BCE Battle between the Gods and the Giants, fragments of the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury, from the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi. c.530-525 BCE 7 Dying Warrior, from east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, c. 480 BCE. 8 CLASSICAL PERIOD [c. 500-400 BCE] Apollo with Battling Lapiths and Centaurs, from west pediment of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia. c.470-456 BCE. Archeological Museum, Olympia. 9 *Acropolis, Athens 10 *Parthenon, 447-438 BCE 11 *East Pediment of the Parthenon, c.438-432 BCE (pediment sculptures now located at the British Museum, London and Acropolis Museum, Athens). *Lapith Fighting a Centaur, metope relief from the Parthenon. c.440 BCE, the British Museum, London. 12 *Horsemen, detail from the Procession from the Parthenon. c.438-432 BCE, the British Museum, London. *Marshals and Young Women, detail from the Procession from the Parthenon. c.438-432 BCE. Musée du Louvre, Paris . 13 Acropolis, Athens (cont.): [c. 500-400 BCE] *Erechtheion, 430-405 BCE *Temple of Athena Nike, 410-407...
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...Ancient Greece The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, located on the Acropolis in Athens, is one of the most representative symbols of the culture and sophistication of the ancient Greeks. Part of a series on the | Modern Greece.Septinsular Republic.War of Independence.First Hellenic Republic.Kingdom of Greece.National Schism.Second Hellenic Republic.4th of August Regime.Axis occupation (collaborationist regime).Civil War.Military Junta.Third Hellenic Republic | History by topic.Art.Constitution.Economy.Military.Names | History of Greece | | Neolithic Greece.Neolithic Greece | Greek Bronze Age.Helladic.Cycladic.Minoan.Mycenaean | Ancient Greece.Homeric Greece.Archaic Greece.Classical Greece.Hellenistic Greece.Roman Greece | Medieval Greece.Byzantine Greece.Frankish and Latin states.Ottoman Greece | | Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BCto the end ofantiquity (c. 600 AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in ancient Greece is the period ofClassical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the repelling of a Persian invasion by Athenian leadership. Because of conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished fromCentral Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea. Classical Greek culture...
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