Link to illustrated recountings of stories of mythological characters (Beazley Archive: Dictionary, Oxford)
 

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Sample Tests

Study Guide for Second Midterm

Study Guide for Final Exam

Reading and Writing Assignments and Reserve Books
 

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Original sculptures have an "O" and copies have a "C" next to their name. The material named within parentheses is that of the original sculpture.
 

Early Classical Period, 480-450 B.C. (Severe Style)

O Agrigento kouros from sanctuary near Agrigento (marble), possibly dedication depicting an athlete who had achieved a victory in an athletic competition, severe.

O Kritios' Kritian kouros, athletic dedication or Theseus? from Athenian Acropolis (Parian marble), severe; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 4; ARHI 3000 web site.

O Blond Boy, a kouros which served as an athletic dedication from Athenian Acropolis (Parian marble),severe; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 17.

O Athenian red-figure cup by Foundry Painter, which depicts different stages in process of producing bronze statues; on exterior are two scenes with contemporary bronze workers, and on interior is Thetis receiving armor for her son Achilles from the forger god Hephaistos.

O Charioteer, athletic dedication from Apollo Sanctuary at Delphi (bronze), severe; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 20; ARHI 3000 web site.

O Long-robed statue from sanctuary on Motya, Carthaginian island off west coast of Sicily (Anatolian marble), identified as a charioteer=an athletic dedication, or as a priest of chief Carthaginian god Melkart, severe.

C Europa, perhaps originally located in Athens, severe; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 16.

C Hera (bronze), severe.

O Artemision Zeus ? (originally with thunderbolt ?) or Poseidon ? (originally with trident ?), found in sea off Cape Artemision, Euboea (bronze), severe; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 22.

O Zeus and Ganymede (or Poseidon abducting Pelops), central acroterion of pediment at Olympia (terra cotta), severe.

C Myron's Discus Thrower, Discobolos (bronze), severe; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 27; ARHI 3000 web site.

C Myron's Athena & Satyr Marsyas, located on Athenian Acropolis (bronze), severe.

O Warrior A, found in sea off Riace (bronze), severe; ARHI 3000 web site.

O Warrior B, found in sea off Riace (bronze), severe.
 
 

High Classical Period, 450-400 B.C. : Parthenon Period/Classical Moment, 450-430 B.C.

C Polykleitos' Spear Bearer, Doryphoros (bronze), classical moment; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 49; Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age, fig. 173; ARHI 3000 web site.

C Polykleitos' Fillet Binder, Diadoumenos (bronze), classical moment.

C Head of Polykleitos' Heracles (bronze), from Rome, classical moment.

C Polykleitos' (?) Athlete or Hermes (bronze), to be restored with discus and staff or phiale and caduceus, classical moment.

C Pheidias' Athena Lemnia, located on Athenian Acropolis (bronze), classical moment.

C Pheidias' Athena Parthenos, cult statue in Parthenon (gold & ivory), Athenian Acropolis, classical moment; ARHI 3000 web site.

C Amazonomachy = Battle of Greeks and Amazons, from exterior of shield of Pheidias' Athena Parthenos, classical moment.

C Gigantomachy = Battle of Gods and Giants, from interior of shield of Pheidias' Athena Parthenos, classical moment.

C Birth of Pandora from front of base of Pheidias' Athena Parthenos, classical moment.

C Pheidias' Zeus, cult statue in Temple of Zeus at Olympia (gold & ivory), classical moment.

C Theban children ravished by sphinxes and Apollo and Artemis shooting down Niobids, from arms and sides of throne, Pheidias' Zeus at Olympia.

C Kresilas' Pericles, from Athenian Acropolis (bronze), classical moment; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 45; ARHI 3000 web site.

O Gold mask of Teres I ? from his tomb near Kazanluk, Bulgaria (ancient Thrace).

High Classical Period, 450-400 B.C.: Rich Style, 430-400 B.C.

O Alkamenes' Procne and Itys (marble) from Athenian Acropolis, rich style.

C Alkamenes' Aphrodite (marble ?), in Gardens in Athens or an Aphrodite by Kallimachos, rich style.

O Paionios' Nike, a votive dedication on a tall triangular base in front of temple of Zeus at Olympia (Parian marble), rich style; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 54.
 
 

Late Classical Period, 400-330 B.C.

C Kephisodotos the Elder's Peace & Wealth (Eirene & Ploutos), in Athenian Agora = market place (bronze?), early rococo; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 63.

C Praxiteles' Hermes & Dionysus, dedication in temple of Hera at Olympia (bronze), rococo; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. fig. 64; ARHI 3000 web site.

O Praxiteles' or School of Praxiteles' Marathon Boy, found in Marathon Bay (bronze), to be restored with drinking horn and phiale or as Hermes with grapes and infant Dionysos, rococo.

O?  Praxiteles' Apollo the Lizard Slayer, Sauroktonos (bronze), rococo.

C Praxiteles' Apollo the Lizard Slayer, Sauroktonos (bronze), rococo; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 65.

C Praxiteles' Aphrodite, in temple of Aphrodite at Knidos (marble), rococo; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 67.

C Skopas' Dancing Maenad with kid (marble), baroque; ARHI 3000 web site.

O Bryaxis' ? Mausolus and Artemisia or Ancestors from Mausoleum at Halicarnasus (marble), baroque.

O Silanion's Head of Boxer Satyros, athletic dedication from Olympia (bronze), baroque.

C Silanion's Plato, from Academy at Athens (bronze), Attic simple style; Robertson fig. 263; Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age, fig. 59.