The Oxford History Of The Classical World

an autonomous democracy or even oligarchy there had been no room for men-gods. The divine kings did not supplant the old gods bu ...

Greek Art And Architecture (By John Boardman) Introduction: Greekness The arts of the western world have been dominated by the ...

The ideal man. The Doryphorus (spear-carrier) by Polyclitus. Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze original of about 440 B.C. The ...

with no less subtlety in architecture. It is demonstrated by the shapes of vases, by the articulation of the decoration upon the ...

The Athenian Acropolis ...

The Fourth-Century Theatre At Epidaurus ...

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-F- Engraved Gems, Finger Rings, And Jewellery: (a) and (b) are of around 500 and 470 B.C.; (c) and (d) are Classical; (e) and ( ...

admitted Greek motifs; gradually the jewellery of Attica and Crete geometricized its shapes and patterns; gradually eastern tech ...

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 ...