Parthenon

Iktinos and Kallikrates

447-438 BCE

High Classical Period

Acropolis, Athens, Greece

Dedicated to the goddess Athena

Parthenon Design

Iktinos and Kallikrates

447-438 BCE

High Classical Period

Acropolis, Athens, Greece

Doric Style columns with 8 in front/back

#4 = statue of Athena

Classical Orders

3 orders (organizational systems) of ancient Greek/classical architecture

Doric: stand directly on flat pavement without base; fluted with parallel concave grooves; smooth capital, flares from column to meet square abacus

Ionic: stands on base (separates from platform, stylobate); capital usually sporting "egg-and-dart" patterns

Corinthian: most ornate of orders; 

Temple of Demeter

c. 530 BCE

Greek

Archaic Period

Naxos Island, Greece

Salamis Stone

c. 4th century BCE

Greek

High Classical Period

Limestone

Used as means of comparing units of measurement for masons from different areas working on Parthenon

Sacrifice Scene

c. 540 BCE

Greek

Archaic Period

Paint on wooden panel

Discovered in the Pitsa Cave, Corinth

Battle of Issus (Alexander Mosaic)

Philoxenos of Eretria

c. 310 BCE

Mosaic

Greek

Late Classical Period

Commissioned by King Kassandra of Macedon

Roman copy of Greek original

From House of the Faun

Pompeii, Italy