High Classical Period c' 450 400 BCE

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High Classical Periodc. 450 - 400 BCE

• Architecture
• Peloponnesian War
• Acropolis, Athens
• Parthenon, constructed 447-432 BCE
• Architects Iktinos and Kallikrates
• Doric style with unusual features

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• Metopes
• East gods vs. giants
• West Greeks vs. Amazons
• North Greeks vs. Trojans
• South Lapiths vs. Centaurs

South Metope XXXI, Lapith vs. Centaur, British
Museum
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• East Pediment
• Birth of Athena

• West Pediment
• Contest between Athena and Poseidon on becoming
  patron deity of Athens

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Pidias sculpture of Athena Parthenos
Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis,
Athens Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens
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• The Fourth Century (c. 400 300 BCE)
• Theatre at Epidauros, early 3rd century

Bronze Athena from a warehouse in Piraeus, 2.44
m, National Museum, Athens, mid 4th
century Bronze Marathon Boy, recovered from Bay
of Marathon, 1.30 m, National Museum, Athens, c.
340 BCE The Alexander Mosaic, Battle of Issos,
Floor Mosaic, Pompeii, adapted from Greek 3rd
century wall painting, National Museum, Naples
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• The Hellenistic Period, c. 323 31 BCE
• Winged Nike of Samothrace, perhaps by Pythokritos
  of Rhodes, 2.45 m, c. 180 BCE, Louvre, Paris
• Aphrodite of Melos, marble, from island of Melos,
  2.04 m, c. 150 125 BCE, Louvre, Paris

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Bronze boxer, 1.28 m, c. 100 50 BCE, Terme
Museum, Rome Laocoön Group, attributed by Pliny
to the Rhodian sculptors, Hagesandros, Polydoros
and Athenedoros, 2.40 m, marble, 2nd 1st
century BCE or 1st century CE, Vatican Museums,
Rome