The Oxford History Of The Classical World

rules of each order relaxed, but we find the two orders more freely combined "within one building, for example in the superimpos ...

Columns Of The Olympieum In Athens. Begun by Pisistratus in the sixth century B.C. probably as an Ionic temple, this most ambiti ...

the spring of the vault there are no internal caesuras to justify the external show. Such display architecture is epitomized by ...

Crypt Of The So-Called Oracle Of The Dead At Ephyra, in western Greece (third century B.C.). It is typical of Greek architecture ...

architectural composition of the age dispensed altogether with orthogonal patterns. The upper city of Pergamum (first half of th ...

winter; its interior surfaces were protected and enhanced by mosaic pavements and painted stucco wall-decorations; and quite oft ...

leads the eye into an inner focus (C.300-C.240 B.C.); the High Hellenistic phase, characterized by grandeur and pathos (C.240-C. ...

Terracotta Figurine Of Lady With Dove from Tanagra (late fourth or third century B.C.). Wrapped in a voluminous cloak (himation) ...

Aphrodite From Melos (Venus De Milo), the finest of all surviving nude female statues (late second century B.C.). It is normally ...

Statue Of A Child Playing With A Goose, a Roman copy of a Hellenistic composition dated to the third century B.C. A passage in P ...

Coin Portraits Of Bactrian Kings: (Left) Antimachus (C.185 BC), (Right) Eucratides I (c.165-150bc). The portraits of this remark ...

Detail Of The Battle Of Gods And Giants: frieze of the Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamum (c. 166-159 B.C.). Athena seizes the ...

paintings of Alexander's battles (by Philoxenus of Eretria and a Graeco-Egyptian paintress Helen) and get hints of others. If, a ...

Painting Of Odysseus In The Land Of The Laestrygonians, part of a frieze depicting scenes from Homer's Odyssey found in a house ...

Detail Of A Pebble Mosaic At Pella in Macedonia (c.300 B.C.). The mosaic, which formed the centrepiece of a floor in a grand tow ...

Reconstructed Wall-Decoration From The House Of The Dolphins At Delos (late second century B.C.). This type of decoration, used ...

In architecture the meeting of Greece and Italy produced a vigorous new tradition. Among its products were new types of building ...

Sanctuary Of Fortune At Praeneste (Palestrina) (late second century B.C.): one of the monumental architectural complexes put up ...

The Borghese Crater (late second century B.C.) : a fine example of the grand marble garden-ornaments produced by Neo-Attic works ...

'Pseudo-Athlete': statue of an Italian merchant or official from the House of the Diadumenus on Delos (early first century B.C.) ...