Exploring the Parthenon

1. MINISTRY OF CULTURE
ACROPOLIS RESTORATION SERVICE (YSMA)
FIRST EPHORATE OF PREHISTORIC AND CLASSICAL ANTIQUITIES (Α’ EPKA)
ΤDEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND EDUCATION
The Parthenon Frieze
Visual material (20 slides)
TRANSLATION FROM GREEK TO ENGLISH : MARIA GΚOUGΚOUTSI

2. 1. The Parthenon. General view from the north-west, the Propylaia.

3. 2. The Parthenon, west side. The frieze remaining on the monument is discerned.

4. 3. L. Alma Tadema, Pheidias and the Parthenon frieze.
Oil painting, 1868. (Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery)

5. 4. East frieze, block V, detail, (Β.Μ.)
The scene of the handing over of the
woollen robe, the peplos.

6. 5. West frieze, block ΙΙ, (Β.Μ.). Horsemen are depicted.

7. 6. West frieze, block VIII (Μ.Α.).
A horseman trying to hold his horse is depicted.

8. 7. North frieze, block ΧLVII (Β.Μ.).
Horsemen about to mount their horses are depicted.

9. 8. North frieze, block XLIII- (Β.Μ.). Horsemen are depicted.

10. 9. South frieze, blocks XIII- (Β.Μ.). Horsemen are depicted.

11. 10. North frieze, block XΧIII (Μ.Α.).
Chariot with charioteer and soldier is depicted.

12. 11. South frieze, block XΧXI (Β.Μ.).
Chariot with charioteer and soldier, hoplite, is depicted.

13. 12. South frieze, block XLIV (Β.Μ.).
Oxen about to be sacrificed and their drivers are depicted.

14. 13. North frieze, block X (Μ.Α.).
Olive branch bearers, thallophoroi, are depicted.

15. 14. Northern frieze, block VI (Μ.Α.). The water-vessel carriers-
hydriaphoroi- and a musician are depicted.

16. 15. Eastern frieze, block VIII, detail, (Β.Μ.).
Women bearing utensils for the sacrifice are depicted.

17. 16. East frieze, block V, detail, (Β.Μ.).
From right to left, Zeus, Hera and Iris are depicted.

18. 17. Eastern frieze, block IV, detail, (Β.Μ.). From right to left Ares,
Demeter, Dionysos and Hermes are depicted.

19. 18. East frieze, block V, detail, (Β.Μ.).
From left to right, Athena and Hephaestus are depicted.

20. 19. East frieze, block VI, detail, (Μ.Α.). Poseidon, Apollon, Artemis,
Aphrodite and Eros are depicted.

21. 20. East frieze, block VI, detail (Μ.Α.). The heads of Poseidon, Apollon
and Artemis are depicted.
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