The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Greek sanctuaries, may have acquired a new serpentine elegance in Greek hands, but they are still recognizably the creatures int ...

The Auxerre Statuette. Seventh-century sculpture is four-square, with emphatic, angular forms. Only in the second half of the ce ...

colossal was generally reserved for cult statues, but in the early years the new marble "workshops produced massive works which ...

The Elements Of The Canonic Classical Doric (Left) And Ionic {Right) Orders Of Architecture. Egypt also taught the Greeks about ...

The Fourth-Century Temple Of Artemis At Ephesus (top), And The Fifth-Century Parthenon At Athens (bottom). Plans to scale. The g ...

Athens figures large in this account of the Archaic, but it was a period in which virtually every major city in Greece had its o ...

The 'Critian Boy'. Marble statue (height 85cm) found on the Athenian Acropolis with debris from the Persian attack of 480/79 B.C ...

support. This may seem little enough, but it was novel and could have appeared grotesquely inadequate in the hands of the incomp ...

500 and had decided not to rebuild the temples destroyed by the Persians, offers us little for some fifty years. But at Olympia ...

Gods From The East Frieze Of The Parthenon. Hephaestus, Apollo, and Artemis are seated with their fellow Olympians, awaiting the ...

panel to the great wall compositions which were the closest Greeks had come to the treatment of eastern or Egyptian walls. The a ...

Hades Carrying Off Persephone In His Chariot. Painting of the second half of fourth century B.C., on the wall of the small tomb ...

The Aphrodite Of Praxiteles. Roman copy of a marble original of about 340B.C. It was displayed in a temple at Cnidus in virtuall ...

The Apoxyomenus (Scraper) Of Lysippus. Roman marble copy of a bronze original of about 325BC. The figure is of a young athlete s ...

portraiture of the contemporary, rather than idealized character studies of the dead, was another gift of the fourth century to ...

Gravestone For A Young Man, from near the River Ilissus, Athens. He is characterized as an athlete, accompanied by a weary child ...

Nike (Victory) Builds A Trophy. Blue chalcedony gemstone, carved in intaglio, shown here at three times actual size. Victory, li ...

Temples were the prime demonstration of state wealth, to say nothing of piety (the backroom of the Parthenon was the treasury). ...

Silver Coin (Decadrachm) Of Syracuse, of about 395-380 B.C., showing the head of the local nymph Arethusa, and signed by the art ...

Narrative in Art The art historian's view of Greek mythology is subtly different from that of the student of Greek literature. M ...