2011 survey early_and_high_classic

Greece: Early and High Classical periods

Krater from the Dipylon cemetery in Athens, Greece, ca. 740 BC

EXEKIAS, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game, Athenian black-figure amphora, 540-530 BC. Found in Italy

Detail, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game, by EXEKIAS. Athenian black-figure amphora, 540-530 BC. Found in Italy

EXEKIAS, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game, Athenian black-figure amphora, 540-530 BC. Found in Italy

EUTHYMIDES, Three revelers, Athenian red-figure amphora, ca. 510 BC. Found in Italy

Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, warrior from east pediment (early 5th cent. BC)

Temple of Aphaia,Aegina, warrior from west pediment (late 6th cent. BC)

Kouros, Anavysos near Athens, ca. 530 BC

Kritios Boy, Athens, ca. 480 BC.Figure demonstrates contrapposto

Bronze statue of a warrior, found under the sea near Riace, Italy, ca. 460 BC

Kritios Boy, Athens, ca. 480 BC

Explanation of the “lost wax” process of bronze casting

Bronze statue of a warrior, found under the sea near Riace, Italy, ca. 460 BCE

MYRON, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower), Roman marble copy of a bronze original of ca. 450 BCE

POLYKLEITOS, Doryphoros (Spear Thrower), Roman marble copy from Pompeii, after a Greek bronze original of ca. 450 BC. The statue demonstrates Polykleitos’s Canon, a harmonic system of proportion.

Acropolis, Athens

Reconstruction drawing of the Athenian Acropolis

IKTINOS and KALLIKRATES, Parthenon (Temple of Athena Parthenos), Acropolis, Athens, 447-438 BCE

PHIDIAS, sculpture from Parthenon pediment

Parthenon

Temple of Aphaia

Erectheion, Acropolis, Athens, 421-405 BC

Porch of the Caryatids,Erectheion, Acropolis, Athens, 421-405 BC

Porch of the Caryatids,Erectheion, Acropolis, Athens, 421-405 BC