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| Geometric krater, from the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 740 BCE. Approx. 3’ 4 1/2” high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
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| Plan of Temple A, Prinias, Greece, ca. 625 BCE. |
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| Calf Bearer (Moschophoros), dedicated by Rhonbos on the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 560 BCE. Marble, restored height approx. 5’ 5”. Acropolis Museum, Athens. |
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| Kroisos, from Anavysos, Greece, ca. 530 BCE. Marble, approx. 6’ 4” high. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. |
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| Temple of Hera I (“Basilica”), Paestum, Italy, ca. 550 BCE. |
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| EXEKIAS, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game (detail from an Attic black-figure amphora), from Vulci, Italy, ca. 540–530 BCE. Whole vessel approx. 2’ high. Vatican Museums, Rome. |
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| EUPHRONIOS, Herakles wrestling Antaios (detail of an Attic red-figure calyx krater), from Cerveteri, Italy, ca. 510 BCE. Whole vessel approx. 1’ 7” high. Louvre, Paris. |
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| Plan (left) and restored cutaway view (right) of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, ca. 500–490 BCE. |
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| Kritios Boy, from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 480 BCE. Marble, approx. 2’ 10” high. Acropolis Museum, Athens. |
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| POLYKLEITOS, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer). Roman marble copy from Pompeii, Italy, after a bronze original of ca. 450–440 BCE, 6’ 11” high. Museo Nazionale, Naples. |
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| IKTINOS and KALLIKRATES, Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Parthenos (view from the northwest), Acropolis, Athens, Greece, 447–438 BCE. |
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| Plan of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, with diagram of sculptural program (after A. Stewart), 447–432 BCE. |
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| Grave stele of Hegeso, from the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 400 BCE. Marble, 5’ 2” high. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. |
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| PRAXITELES, Aphrodite of Knidos. Roman marble copy after an original of ca. 350–340 BCE. Approx. 6’ 8” high. Vatican Museums, Rome. |
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| LYSIPPOS, Apoxyomenos (Scraper). Roman marble copy after a bronze original of ca. 330 BCE, approx. 6’ 9” high. Vatican Museums, Rome. |
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| ATHANADOROS, HAGESANDROS, and POLYDOROS OF RHODES, Laocoön and his sons, from Rome, Italy, early first century CE Marble, approx. 7’ 10 1/2” high. Vatican Museums, Rome. |
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| Hero and centaur (Herakles and Nessos?), ca. 750–730 BCE. Bronze, approx. 4 1/2” high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
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| Mantiklos Apollo, statuette of a youth dedicated by Mantiklos to Apollo, from Thebes, Greece, ca. 700–680 BCE. Bronze, approx. 8” high. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. |
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| Corinthian black-figure amphora with animal friezes, from Rhodes, Greece, ca. 625–600 BCE. Approx. 1’ 2” high. British Museum, London. |
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| Lintel of Temple A, Prinias, Greece, ca. 625 BCE. Limestone, approx. 2’ 9” high; seated goddesses approx. 2’ 8” high. Archaeological Museum, Herakleion. |
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| Lady of Auxerre, statue of a goddess or kore, ca. 650–625 BCE. Limestone, approx. 2’ 1 1/2” high. Louvre, Paris. |
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| Kouros, ca. 600 BCE. Marble, approx. 6’ 1/2” high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
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| Peplos Kore, from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 530 BCE. Marble, approx. 4’ high. Acropolis Museum, Athens. |
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| Kore, from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 520–510 BCE. Marble, approx. 1’ 9 1/2” high. Acropolis Museum, Athens. |
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| Dying warrior, from the west pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, ca. 500–490 BCE. Marble, approx. 5’ 2 1/2” long. Glyptothek, Munich. |
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| Dying warrior, from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, ca. 490–480 BCE. Marble, approx. 6’ 1” long. Glyptothek, Munich. |
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| Warrior, from the sea off Riace, Italy, ca. 460–450 BCE. Bronze, approx. 6’ 6” high. Archaeological Museum, Reggio Calabria. |
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| MYRON, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower). Roman marble copy after a bronze original of ca. 450 BCE, 5’ 1” high. Museo Nazionale Romano—Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. |
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| PHIDIAS, Athena Parthenos, in the cella of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 438 BCE. Model of the lost statue, which was approx. 38’ tall. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. |
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Details of the Panathenaic Festival procession frieze, from the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 447–438 BCE. Marble, approx. 3’ 6” high. Horsemen of north frieze (top), British Museum, London; Acropolis Museum, Athens; and elders and maidens of east frieze (bottom), Louvre, Paris.
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| POLYKLEITOS THE YOUNGER, Theater, Epidauros, Greece, ca. 350 BCE. |
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