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Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450 B.C.E. Marble
Immortalizes the athletic feets of the early Olympic games, and the focus on the human form. This exact pose is never recreated during a discus throw. |
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Sculpture from the left corner from the east pediment of the Temple of Athena, C. 500-490 B.C.E. Aegina Marble.
Painted and fitted with bronze armor, it portrays a heightened the sense of reality. |
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Attica, c. 600 BCE Marble.
A Kouros dated from about 600 BCE recalls the pose and proportions of the Egyptian sculpture. Here the artist delineated the figures anatomy, and the mouth forms the close lip called the Archanic Smile. |
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A Pitcher. Cornith 600 BCE. Ceramic with black-figure decorations.
An example of the black-figure pottery style, it is decorated with dark shapes of lions against a background of very pale buff, the natural color of Corithan clay. |
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Funerary Vase (Krater) Dipylon Cemetary, Athens. C. 750-700 BCE. Attributed to the Hirschfeild Workshop. Ceramic.
The krater illustrated here, was a grave marker dated about 750 BCE provides a detaloied record of the funerary rituals, including the relatively new Greek practice of cremation. |
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| This anmthora, detalies a scene from the Iliad. Greek heroes Ajax and Achilles bend over a game board. |
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| The greeks have captured every detal, from the torc aroud the dying gauls nek to |
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| Alexander and Darius II meet on the field of battle. |
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