Humanities 100 Chapter 2 PowerPoint from Sayre's Discovering the Humanities

1. Greek. The Acropolis, Athens, Greece, as rebuilt post 479 BCE.
2nd half fifth century BCE.
[Fig. 2.1]

2. Greek. The Stoa of Attalos, Athens, Greece.
150 BCE.
[Fig. 2.2]

3. Map: The City-states of Ancient Greece.
[Fig. Map 2.1]

4. Cycladic. Figurine of a woman from the Cyclades.
ca. 2500 BCE. Marble. Height: 15-3/4".
Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation. Museum of Cycladic Arts, Athens.
N. P. Goulandris Collection, No. 206. [Fig. 2.3]

5. Minoan. Miniature Ship Fresco, left section. Room 5, West House, Akrotiri, Thera.
Before 1623 BCE. Fresco. Height: 15-3/4".
National Archaeological Museum, Athens. [Fig. 2.4]

6. Minoan. Bull Leaping (Toreador Fresco). From the palace complex at Knossos, Crete.
ca. 1450–1375 BCE. Fresco. Height approx. 24-1/2".
National Archaeological Museum, Iráklion, Crete. [Fig. 2.5]

7. Minoan. Snake Goddess or Priestess. From the palace at Knossos, Crete.
ca. 1500 BCE. Faience. Height 11-5/8".
National Archaeological Museum, Iráklion, Crete. [Fig. 2.6]

8. Minoan. Reconstruction drawing of the new palace complex at Knossos, Crete
(color drawing).
ca. 1500 BCE.
[Fig. 2.7]

9. Minoan. Grand Staircase, east wing, palace complex at Knossos, Crete, as reconstructed
by Sir Arthur Evans.
ca. 1500 BCE.
[Fig. 2.8]

10. Minoan. Vaphio Cup, from a tomb at Vaphio, south of Sparta, Greece.
ca. 1650–1450 BCE. Gold repoussé. Height 3-1/2".
National Archaeological Museum, Iráklion, Crete. [Fig. 2.9]

11. Mycenaean. Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece.
ca. 1300 BCE. Limestone relief. Height of relief panel: 9' 6".
[Fig. 2.10]

12. Mycenaean. Funerary mask (Mask of Agamemnon).
From Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece.
ca. 1600–1550 BCE. Gold repoussé. Height: approx. 12".
National Archaeological Museum, Athens. [Fig. 2.11]

13. Greek. Botkin Class Amphora, Greek. Black-figure decoration.
ca. 540-530 BCE. Black-figure ceramic. Height: 11-9/16" Diameter: 9-1/2".
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Henry Lillie Pierce Fund 98.923.
Photograph © 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [Fig. 2.12]

14. Greek. The Temple of Hera I, ca. 560 BCE (background), and The Temple of Hera II,
ca. 460 BC. (foreground), Paestum, Italy. [Fig. 2.13]

15. Greek. The Athenian Treasury, Delphi.
ca. 510 BCE.
[Fig. 2.14a]

16. Greek. Plan: the Athenian Treasury, Delphi.
ca. 510 BCE.
[Fig. 2.14b]

17. Greek. Model of a Temple, found in the Sanctuary of Hera, Argos.
Mid-eighth century BCE.
[Fig. 2.15]

18. Euphiletos Painter. A foot-race at the Panathenaic Games in Athens. Detail of black-figure
Amphora by Euphiletos Painter.
ca. 530 BCE. Black-figure ceramic. Height: 24-1/2".
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1914 (14.130.12).
Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY. [Fig. 2.16]

19. Greek. Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy, plan.
ca. 540 BCE.
[Fig. 2-CL.1b]

20. Greek. Doric columns at the Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy.
ca. 540 BCE.
[Fig. 2-CL.1a]

21. Greek. Naxian sphinx on an Ionic column, Delphi.
ca. 560 BCE. Height of sphinx: 91".
Archaeological Museum, Delphi. [Fig. 2-CL.2]

22. Greek. Corinthian capital from the Tholos, Epidaurus.
Fourth century BCE. Height: 26".
Archaeological Museum, Epidaurus. [Fig. 2-CL.3]

23. Greek. Diagram of the Orders, from James Stuart, The Antiquities of Athens,
London. 1794.
[Fig. 2-CL.4]

24. Greek. New York Kuoros.
ca. 600 BCE. Marble. Height: 6' 4".
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1932 (32.11.1). Image
copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY. [Fig. 2.17]

25. Greek. Anavysos Kouros, from Anavysos cemetery, near Athens.
ca. 525 BE. Marble with remnants of paint. Height: 6' 4".
National Archaeological Museum, Athens. [Fig. 2.18]

26. Greek. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis, Athens.
Dedicated 530 BCE. Polychromed marble. Height: 47-1/2”
Acropolis Museum, Athens. [Fig. 2.19a]

27. Greek. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis, Athens, plaster cast reconstructing the original.
Dedicated 530 BCE. Plaster cast. Height: 47-1/2”
Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, England. [Fig. 2.19b]

28. Greek. Kore, from the Acropolis, Athens.
ca. 520 BCE. Polychromed marble. Height: 21".
Acropolis Museum, Athens. [Fig. 2.20]

29. The Priam Painter. Women at a Fountain House. Black-figure decoration on a hydria vase.
ca. 520 BCE. Black-figure ceramic. Height: 20-7/8".
Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Reproduced with permission. © 2005 Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston. All rights reserved. [Fig. 2.21]

30. Euphronius (painter) and Euxitheos (potter). Death of Sarpedon. Red-figure decoration
on a calyx krater. ca. 515 BCE. Red-figure ceramic. Height: 18".
Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome. [Fig. 2.22]

31. Greek. Map: Athens as it appeared in the late fifth century BCE.
[Fig. Map 2.2]

32. Ictinus and Callicrates. The Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens.
447–438 BCE, Sculpture program by 432 BCE. 221' x 101' (top step).
[Fig. 2.23]

33. Ictinus and Callicrates. The Parthenon: the plan of the temple, Acropolis, Athens.
447–438 BCE. 228' x 101' (top step).
[Fig. 2.23b]

34. Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens.
ca. 425 BCE.
[Fig. 2.24]

35. Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens.
430s–405 BCE.
[Fig. 2.25]

36. Greek. Kritios Boy, from Acropolis, Athens. ca. 480 BCE.
480 BCE. Marble. Height: 46".
Acropolis Museum, Athens. [Fig. 2.26]

37. Polyclitus. Doryphoros (Spear Bearer),
Roman copy after the original bronze by Polyclitus.
ca. 450–440 BCE. Marble. Height: 6' 6".
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. [Fig. 2.27]

38. Phidias. Model of the Athena Parthenos, original ca. 440 BCE.
ca. 440 BCE. Height of original: approx. 40'.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. [Fig. 2.28]

39. Ictinus and Callicrates. The Parthenon: Cutaway drawing of the Parthenon porch showing
friezes, metopes, and pediment. (color drawing).
447–438 BCE. 228' x 101' (top step).
[Fig. 2.29]

40. Young Men on Horseback, segment of the north frieze, Parthenon.
ca. 440 BCE. Marble. Height: 41".
© The Trustees of The British Museum/Art Resource, NY. [Fig. 2.30]

41. A recumbent god (Dionysus or Heracles), from the east pediment of the Parthenon.
ca. 435 BCE. Marble.
© The Trustees of The British Museum/Art Resource, NY. [Fig. 2.31]

42. Lapith overcoming a centaur, south metope 27, from the Parthenon, Athens.
447–438 BCE.
© The Trustees of The British Museum/Art Resource, NY. [Fig. 2.32]

43. Assteas. Red-figure krater depicting a comedy, from Paestum, Italy.
ca. 350 BCE. Red-figure ceramic.
Staatliche Museen, Berlin. [Fig. 2.33]

44. Theater, Epidaurus.
Early third century BCE.
[Fig. 2.34]

45. Plan: Theater at Epidaurus (line drawing).
Early third century BCE.
[Fig. 2.35]

46. Alexander the Great, head from a Pergamene copy (ca. 200 BCE) of a statue, possibly
after a fourth-century BCE original by Lysippus. Marble.
Height: 16-1/8". Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. [Fig. 2.36]

47. Map: Alexander’s empire as of his death in 323 BCE and the route of his conquests.
323 BCE.
[Fig. Map 2.3]

48. Roman copy after Lysippus. Apoxyomenos (The Scraper), Roman copy of an original
Greek bronze of ca. 350–325 BCE.
ca. 350–325 BCE. Marble after bronze original. Height: 6' 8".
Museo Pio Clementino, Vatican Museums, Vatican State. [Fig. 2.37]

49. Roman copy after Praxiteles. Aphrodite of Knidos.
ca. 350 BCE. Marble. Height: 6' 8".
P. Zigrossi/Vatican Museums, Vatican State. [Fig. 2.38]

50. Hellenistic. Reconstructed west front of the Altar of Zeus, from Pergamon.
ca. 165 BCE. Marble.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung, Pergamonmuseum. [Fig. 2.39]

51. Hellenistic. East frieze of the Altar of Zeus, from Pergamon. Detail.
ca. 165 BCE. Marble.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung, Pergamonmuseum. [Fig. 2.40]

52. Hellenistic. Nike (Victory) of Samothrace.
From the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace.
ca. 300-190 BCE. Marble. Height: 8' 1".
Musée du Louvre, Paris. [Fig. 2.41]

53. Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athanadoros of Rhodes. Laocoön and His Sons.
Second-first century BCE, or first century CE. Marble. Height: 8' 1/2".
Museo Pio Clementino, Vatican Museums, Vatican State. [Fig. 2.42]