divinities flying; length 16.51 cm, ca. 470–450 BC. London, British Museum, 1860,1201.2.Chapter
Figure 47 Plan of the acropolis in Athens in the second century AD (1 = Parthenon, 2 =
Erechtheum, 3 = Propylaea, 4 = Temple of Athena Nike, 5 = Sanctuary and Theater of Dionysus).
Figure 48 Plan, drawn by Gottfried Gruben, of the Parthenon in Athens; length 72.3 m, width 33.
m, 447–432 BC.
Figure 49 The Parthenon as seen from the northwest.
Figure 50 Plaster cast, made ca. 1790 before the marble original suffered further damage, of the
east frieze of the Parthenon, showing Poseidon, Apollo, and Artemis; height 106 cm, original
(now in the Acropolis Museum, Athens) ca. 440–435 BC. Urbana, Spurlock Museum,
1911.03.0021.
Figure 51 Plaster cast of the south frieze of the Parthenon, showing sacrificial victim being led in
procession; height 106 cm, original (now in the British Museum, London) ca. 440–435 BC.
Urbana, Spurlock Museum, 1911.03.0010.
Figure 52 Plaster cast of the east frieze of the Parthenon, showing girls and men (serving as
marshals?) in procession; height 106 cm, original (now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris) ca. 440–
435 BC. Urbana, Spurlock Museum, 1911.03.0017.
Figure 53 The Erechtheum as seen from the west; width (north to south) 23.1 m, length (east to
west) 26.9 m, ca. 421–405 BC.
Figure 54 The Temple of Athena Nike (right) seen from the northwest; length (north to south) 8.
m, width (east to west) 5.4 m, ca. 424–418 BC.Chapter
Figure 55 Terracotta figurine of a masked tragic actor portraying Heracles, T 862; height 8 cm,
ca. 250 BC.
Figure 56 Lucanian red-figure calyx-krater attributed to the Policoro Painter, showing Medea in
an airborne chariot drawn by serpents, with Jason (bottom left) and the bodies of their children
(right); height of vase 50.5 cm, ca. 400 BC. The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Figure 57 Apulian red-figure bell-krater illustrating a scene from Aristophanes’
Thesmophoriazusae; height of vase 18.5 cm, 370s BC. Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum
der Universität Würzburg.
Figure 58 Bronze figurine of a Spartan girl; height 11.4 cm, ca. 520–500 BC. London, British
Museum, GR 1876.5–10.1 (Bronze 208).
Figure 59 Interior of red-figure cup, attributed to the Triptolemus Painter, showing a man carrying
a provocatively phallic sack past a herm; diameter of figured scene 15.5 cm, ca. 490 BC. Berlin,
Antikensammlung, F 2298.
Figure 60 Silver decadrachm of Syracuse, signed by Kimon, showing the nymph Arethusa with
dolphins and a charioteer crowned by Nike; weight 43.36 g, 400–390 BC. London, British
Museum, 1841,0726.288.Chapter