The Oxford History Of The Classical World

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 ...

The Departure Of Amphiaraus For Thebes. Drawing from a Corinthian vase of about 560bc (see text for description and commentary). ...

The Deeds Of Theseus, on the interior of an Athenian cup of about 430BC. It is unusual in being decorated around its central med ...

past, both mythical and recent, and Athenians. On other temples the relevance of the subject is sometimes less apparent, and we ...

columned interior of a temple and barely lit from the doors or windows before them and, at Olympia and in the Parthenon, by the ...

She stood some 40 feet tall. Decoration in Art Nothing, except perhaps the heroic nude, provokes recognition of Greekness more r ...

Bronze Crater (Mixing Bowl), from Derveni, near Salonica, found in 1962. Late fourth century B.C. The most elaborate of its type ...

Greek art was not the big business in antiquity that it is today. Some portable works, jewellery and plate, were expensive, and ...

requirements of a far wider range of the community than its priests and governors, and he demonstrated for the first time in the ...

Greece And Rome The History of the Hellenistic Period (By Simon Price) Map 5. The Hellenistic World The Hellenistic period, th ...