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

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Greek. The Acropolis, Athens, Greece, as rebuilt post 479 BCE.2nd half fifth century BCE.

[Fig. 2.1]

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

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

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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

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Minoan. Grand Staircase, east wing, palace complex at Knossos, Crete, as reconstructed by Sir Arthur Evans.

ca. 1500 BCE.[Fig. 2.8]

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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]

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

[Fig. 2.10]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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

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

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Greek. Model of a Temple, found in the Sanctuary of Hera, Argos.Mid-eighth century BCE.

[Fig. 2.15]

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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]

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

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

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Greek. Naxian sphinx on an Ionic column, Delphi.ca. 560 BCE. Height of sphinx: 91".

Archaeological Museum, Delphi. [Fig. 2-CL.2]

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Greek. Corinthian capital from the Tholos, Epidaurus.Fourth century BCE. Height: 26".

Archaeological Museum, Epidaurus. [Fig. 2-CL.3]

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

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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]

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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]

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Greek. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis, Athens.Dedicated 530 BCE. Polychromed marble. Height: 47-1/2”

Acropolis Museum, Athens. [Fig. 2.19a]

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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]

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Greek. Kore, from the Acropolis, Athens.ca. 520 BCE. Polychromed marble. Height: 21".

Acropolis Museum, Athens. [Fig. 2.20]

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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]

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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]

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

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

[Fig. 2.23]

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Ictinus and Callicrates. The Parthenon: the plan of the temple, Acropolis, Athens.

447–438 BCE. 228' x 101' (top step).[Fig. 2.23b]

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

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

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Greek. Kritios Boy, from Acropolis, Athens. ca. 480 BCE.480 BCE. Marble. Height: 46".

Acropolis Museum, Athens. [Fig. 2.26]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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Assteas. Red-figure krater depicting a comedy, from Paestum, Italy.ca. 350 BCE. Red-figure ceramic.

Staatliche Museen, Berlin. [Fig. 2.33]

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Theater, Epidaurus.Early third century BCE.

[Fig. 2.34]

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Plan: Theater at Epidaurus (line drawing).Early third century BCE.

[Fig. 2.35]

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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]

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Map: Alexander’s empire as of his death in 323 BCE and the route of his conquests.323 BCE.

[Fig. Map 2.3]

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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]

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Roman copy after Praxiteles. Aphrodite of Knidos.ca. 350 BCE. Marble. Height: 6' 8".

P. Zigrossi/Vatican Museums, Vatican State. [Fig. 2.38]

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Hellenistic. Reconstructed west front of the Altar of Zeus, from Pergamon.ca. 165 BCE. Marble.

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung, Pergamonmuseum. [Fig. 2.39]

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Hellenistic. East frieze of the Altar of Zeus, from Pergamon. Detail.ca. 165 BCE. Marble.

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung, Pergamonmuseum. [Fig. 2.40]

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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]

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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]