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ZEUS SEATED ON A CHAIR

Vase painting 550-525 B.C. British Museum, London In this sixth century B.C. chair there is a slight curve in the legs and back. The back turns and ends in the head of a swan. The legs retain the earlier clawed feet. Between the seat and stretcher is an ornamental carved animal. There is a low arm-rail and a seat cushion....

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COUCH AND TABLE

Bilingual amphora Andokides Painter c. 525 B.C. Antikensammlungen, Munich Herakles greets Athena from his beautifully decorated couch, mattress, and pillows. The couch is higher on the sides of the pillow. The rectangular legs rest on bases. After the meal, tables were stored under the bed....

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THE VARVAKEION STATUETTE

Roman copy after Phidias' Athena Parthenos National Museum, Athens This is an inadequate Roman miniature of Phidias's immense and extravagantly rich statue of the goddess Athena. The cost of building the Parthenon, the propylaea and other buildings on the Acropolis was 2,012 talents. The statue of Athena alone cost 700 talents. About fifty feet ta...

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DIONE AND APHRODITE

Parthenon, East Pediment Acropolis, Athens 437-432 B.C. British Museum, London Two of the three so-called Fates. These breathtaking female figures are sometimes identified as Dione and Aphrodite, the goddesses....

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STOA OF ATTALOS II

Athens 150 B.C. Modern Reconstruction This stoa was originally built along the Athenian Agora, a marketplace in 150 B.C., as a place of business and a shelter for well-to-do Athenians. The two-story colonnaded facade has a Doric order on the ground level and the Ionic order above. This stoa is a modern reconstruction....

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PEDIMENT DECORATION

Archaic Shrine Molino a Vento From L. Bernabo-Brea L'Athenaion de Gela Rome, 1952 Modern Reconstruction A reconstruction of terra-cotta pediment decoration on an archaic late sixth century shrine at Molino a Vento, Gela....

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Detail, APHRODITE AND EROTES

White-ground cup Lyandros Painter c. 460 B.C. Museo Archeologico Florence The straight legs are decorated with volutes at the seat and smaller volutes near the floor. The angular back ends in volutes too. Probably the seat was woven....

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TABLES

Campanian bell-krater C.A. Painter Symposion c. 350 B.C. Museo Nazionale, Naples The Greek table has a limited use, primarily holding food and dishes during meals. Consequently they are small and light. The circular table on the left has three plain legs with stretchers. The simple rectangular table on the right also has three legs....

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WEST PTEROMA

From the southwest corner Parthenon Acropolis, Athens 447-432 B.C. The walk space between the exterior columns on the left and the walled-in columns on the right is called the pteroma....

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SPHINX OF THE NAXIANS

From the sanctuary at Delphi c. 560 B.C. Museum, Delphi The sphinx of the Naxians, a wealthy Cyc1adic island people, sits on an elegant Ionic column which stood not far from the temple of Apollo at Delphi. This was the Naxians' gift to the sanctuary....

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