Art in the Ancient World

LECTURE 4 | Art of Ancient Greece

A U G U S T I N E C O L L E G E

κ ο σ μ ο ς χ ά ο ς

kosmos kaos

‘Geometric’ style vases700 BC

Hephaistos assisting in the birth of Athena from the head of Zeus | Archaic

Kouros

525 BC

King Menkaure

Egyptian | 4th dynasty 2530 BC

Kouros from Anavyasos in Attica

525 BC

Kouroi

Kleobis and Biton

580 BC

Kleobis and Biton

detail

580 BC

Kore (young woman)

6th C BC

Kore (young woman)

500 BC

Peplos kore (young woman wearing a peplos)

530 BC

Aristocles

Funerary stele of Aristion

510 BC

α ρ ε τ έ

α ρ ε τ έ κ α κ ι α

arete kakia

We are as leaves in jewelled springtime growingThat open to the sunlight’s quickening rays:

So joy we in our span of youth, unknowingIf God shall bring us good or evil days.

Two Fates beside thee stand; the one has sorrow,Dull age’s fruit; that other gives the boon

Of death, for youth’s fair flower has no tomorrow,And lives but as a sunlit afternoon.

M I M N E R M O S ( 6 0 0 B C )

Fallen warrior Temple of Aphaia, Aegina

west pediment | 490 BC

The Temple of Aphaia, Aegina 5th C BC

The Parthenon, Athens i.e., Temple of Athena Parthenos

Doric | c 445 BC

The Parthenon, Athensi.e., Temple of Athena Parthenos

Doric c 445 BC

The Parthenon, Athens (Temple of Athena Parthenos)

c 445 BC Sculpted friezes by PHEIDIAS

Plan of a temple

Greek temple

Solomon’s temple

cella

p e d i m e n t Reconstruction of the east pediment,of the temple of Zeus at Olympia

572 BC

Artist’s conception of the cult statue of Athena in the Parthenon

Parthenon replica, Nashville, Tennessee

capitals

pediment

metopes

entablature

columns

Zeus or Poseidon 460 BC

“Single is the race, singleof men and gods;

From a single mother we both draw breath.But a difference of power in everythingkeeps us apart;

For the one is as Nothing, but the brazen skyStays a fixed habitation for ever.

Yet we can in greatness of mindOr of body be like the Immortals,....”

“Become what you are!”

Charioteer of Delphi

bronze

470 BC

Charioteer of Delphi

bronze | 470 BC

Temple of Apollo

Delphi

Temple of Apollo

Delphi

ε θ ο ς π α θ ο ς

ethos pathos

character reaction, feeling

κ α λ ο ς τ ο κ α λ ο ν

kalos tō kalon

beautiful, fine, beauty, fineness, noble nobility

τέλειοι

τετέλεκα

Apollo

Temple of Zeus, Olympia

fragments of west pediment

460 BC

Temple of Zeus, Olympia

fragments of west pediment

460 BC

Apollo

Temple of Zeus, Olympia

fragments of west pediment

460 BC

Temple of Zeus, Olympia

fragments of west pediment | 460 BC

Apollo

Temple of Zeus, Olympia

460 BC

Apollo

Temple of Zeus, Olympia

fragments of west pediment

460 BC

Aphrodite of Knidos

Roman copy of a lost work made

in 340 BC by Praxiteles

Aphrodite of Knidos

Roman copy of a lost work made

in 340 BC by Praxiteles

Aphrodite of

Knidos

Praxiteles

Two further Roman copies of the same work made in 340 BC

by Praxiteles

Head copied from the Aphrodite of Knidos

Hellenistic copy of a work made in 340 BC by Praxiteles

Aphrodite of

Knidos

Roman copy of a work made in 340 BC

by Praxiteles

Athena and Poseidon

lithograph of 1840 after a Greek vase by Amasis

ΑΜΑΣΙΣ ΜΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ

ποιεσις

poesis

making