FAH207 Midterm Slide ID

Athena Lemnia 450-40 Phidias acropolis, late severe

Athena Promachos 450 BC Phidias 9m high looking over acropolis striding, ready to strike, made with spoils from battle of marathon

Myron's Athena and Marsyas 450 BC dedicated on acropolis

Porticello Head 5th c?

Pediments

Review

Themes

North, male hydrophoroi frieze… W-E procession, like the panatheneia itself peplos scene… 5 humans flanked by gods but on same register. in the pediments gods only, and in the metopes there is a mix of heroes and gods 1st procession worthy of being shown? is this the folding of the peplos at the end of the ceremony?

East ionic frieze east 10 old men… heroes that made the 10 diems Peloponnesian War 431-404 BC next tragic war after persian war parthenon as hegemony of athens after persian war… Peloponnesian war marks the bookend of that …. civil war, Sparta started Peloponnesian league as opposed to Delian league 30000 (1/3 athenian pop) died around this time from plague. including Pericles and sons who were leading Athenian golden streak Sparta won. didn’t totally dismantle Athens but did impose oligarchy … end of quintessential Athenian democracy

Cult statue of Nemesis at Rhamnous (roman copy of original marble by Agorakritos) 430-20 bc Cult Statue of Nemesis at Rhamnous, Roman Copy of original marble by Agorakritos 430-420 BC … compare fragments of original to full copy … full contrapposto …. identifies parts of frieze Agorakritos might have worked on based on details like hands

Temple of Athena Nike frieze sculpture becomes more floral and wet-drapey and fleeting… decadence bc after plague don’t know what will happen tomorrow, cater to moment, more sensational but shallow Temple of Athena Nike built at time of Peloponnesian War nike adjusting sandal… invisible garment effect nike leading sacrificial bull

Agora Aphrodite Excavated in the Agora, original parian marble 410 bc right attributed to Agorakritos' school, similar to the Nike on the left from Temple of Athena Nike

Tyrranicides Roman copies of 477 BC Bronzes by Kritios and Nesiotes (these are Marble)
Harmodius and Aristogaton
democratic reform, but was it just the act of a jealous lover? Hipparchos had gone for Harmodius, who was lovers with Aristogaton. Still, led to Kleisthenes Democratic Reform in 508
-1st public commemoration of indiviuals in agora
-pose is iconic... sort of participatory outside the Acropolis where they did it... you feel like Hippoparchos and hear "don't fuck with democracy"
-depicted on Parthenon, Oinochoe fragment, panathenaic amphora... they are superstars
-used as shield device depicted on vases (like Panathenaic vase that shows games on one side and Athena holding them on a shield on the other)

Diskobolos by Myron
Roman copy of a 450 BC bronze Greek original (this one is Marble)
-see movement caught in action
-classical, contraposto and no frontality
-a time when philosophers were pondering space+time (Parmenides and the tortoise and hare for example)

Delphi Charioteer 460 BCE
-Bronze with copper lips/eyelashes, silver teeth/headband, onyx eyes
-don't show body, he is totally draped... contrast with Notya Charioteer to demonstrate regional differences between contemporaries