ARHI4010/6010: Study Guide for Final Exam; Van Keuren

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

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Sample Tests

Study Guide for First Midterm

Study Guide for Second Midterm

Reading and Writing Assignments and Reserve Books
 

Severe Temple of Zeus at Olympia (plan), a Doric temple from the Early Classical period (470-457 B.C.), designed by Libon from Elis.

Peristyle with 6 x 13 columns. Dimensions of ground plan and elevation based on the interaxial (= 16 Doric feet).

East pediment depicts a chariot race between Oinomaos and Pelops: Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, figs. 10-13.

[River god (Alpheios), seer,] charioteer (Myrtilos), [servant with reins,] wife of Oinomaos (Sterope), Oinomaos, Zeus, Pelops, daughter of Oinomaos (Hippodameia), [servant girl,] seer(Iamos ?), youth (Arkas ?), and river god (Kladeos).

West pediment depicts a battle of Centaurs and Lapiths: Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, figs. 10 and 14.

In center, bride of Peirithoos (Deiadameia), Centaur (Eurytion), [Peirithoos], Apollo, Theseus, Centaur, Lapith lady.

From far right, Centaur biting Lapith youth.

Metopes from porches (twelve labors of Heracles): Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, figs. 23-24.

(West) metopes: Heracles and lion; Heracles and birds; Heracles and bull.

(East) metopes: Heracles and Atlas with apples (click here for a color reconstruction); Heracles and Cerberus; Heracles cleaning stables.

 Severe Temple of Hera II at Paestum, a Doric temple from the Early Classical period (460-450 B.C.): Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 18. Peristyle with 6 x 14 columns. Ratio of width (72 Doric feet) to length (180 Doric feet) = 2/5. Architrave + frieze = 9 Doric feet. Severe Temple of Hera (= Temple E), Selinus, a Doric temple with a Late Archaic peristyle (490-480 B.C.) and an Early Classical cella with porch metopes (465-450 B.C.): Peristyle with 6 x 15 columns; plan with adyton containing cult statue.

(Pronaos) metopes: Zeus and Hera; Heracles and Amazon; Artemis and Actaion: Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 25.

(Opisthodomos) metopes: Athena and giant (Enceladus).

 Parthenon on Athenian Acropolis, a Doric and Ionic temple from Parthenon period (447-432 B.C.; plan), classical moment; architectural features designed by Iktinos and Kallikrates, cult statue made by Pheidias, and architectural sculptures probably designed by Pheidias. Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, figs. 31-32; web site for ARHI 3000. Top step (stylobate) with dimensions forming the ratio of 4/9. Peristyle with 8 x 17 Doric columns. Porch columns Doric, and treasury columns Ionic. Frieze on cella-wall Ionic.

South metopes: Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, figs. 33 and 34 (metopes 31 and 27 respectively); web site for ARHI 3000.

Lapiths and Centaurs (nos. 1, 7, 16, 27 and 31).

East metopes: Battle of gods and giants.

Hera in Zeus' chariot (no. 7).

West metopes: Greeks and Amazons.

Mounted Amazon (no. 1).

North metopes: Destruction of Troy.

Two goddesses (Athena and Hera, no. 32).

Ionic frieze: Panathenaic procession (see class web site for plan of frieze, and Perseus). Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, figs. 35-39 (details of portions of the west [Pollitt fig. 35], north [Pollitt figs. 36-38] and south friezes [Pollitt fig. 39]; see site for ARHI 3000).

From procession on west, north and south sides: horsemen [Pollitt figs. 35-37], chariots [Pollitt fig. 39], olive-branch holders (thallophoroi), musicians, hydria-carriers, tray-bearers and sacrificial victims [Pollitt fig. 38]; web site for ARHI 3000.

East: Girls and marshals; 10 eponymous heroes; assembly of divinities including Hera, Zeus, Athena, Hephaistos, Poseidon, Apollo and Artemis; in center, peplos ceremony, or preparation for sacrifice of Erectheus' daughter; web site for ARHI 3000.

East pediment: Birth of Athena from head of Zeus. Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, figs. 40 (Carrey drawings), 42, and 43; web site for ARHI 3000.

Lost figures from center of pediment, as known from wellhead in Madrid (see class web site): Hephaistos, enthroned Zeus and newly-born Athena.

Helios (sun god) on far left (Pollitt fig. 43) and Selene (moon goddess) on far right. On left (Pollitt fig. 43), Herakles, Persephone, Demeter, and Iris. On right, Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite (Pollitt fig. 42).

West pediment: Contest of Athena and Poseidon. Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, figs. 40 (Carrey drawings of west pediment) and 41.

Torso of Poseidon from center of pediment.

From left side: river god (Kephissos), Kekrops (Athens' first king) and Kekrops' daughter (Pandrosos). From right side, fragments of Poseidon and Iris (Pollitt fig. 41).

 Temple of Athena Nike on Athenian Acropolis, Ionic temple from Rich-Style period (427-421 B.C.), with later parapet (late 5th century B.C.), Rich Style.

Ionic columns in amphiprostyle tetratrastyle arrangement.

Ionic frieze on temple: (on south) battle of Greeks and Persians or Amazons; (on east) assembly of gods.

Parapet reliefs: Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, figs. 50 and 51 (two Nikai from parapet).

Enthroned Athena and Nikai with trophies and bulls.

 Temple of Apollo at Bassae, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian temple from Parthenon period (450 B.C.) and Rich-Style period (425-420 B.C.); second phase designed by Iktinos: Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, fig. 56. Top step (stylobate) with dimensions forming the ratio of 2/5. Doric peristyle with 6 x 15 columns. Naos columns of Ionic and Corinthian orders.

Interior frieze: Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, figs. 57 and 52.

Lapiths and Centaurs; and Greeks and Amazons (see class web site).

 Temple of Athena, Tegea, Doric and Corinthian temple from Late Classical period in baroque style, designed by Skopas (375-350 B.C. or 350-325 B.C.). Doric peristyle with 6 x 14 columns. Corinthian columns (and possibly a second storey of Ionic columns) in naos.

West pediment in baroque style: Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, figs. 61-62.

Battle of Achilles and Telephos (whose heads survive) in presence of Heracles (father of Telephos).

 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, a baroque monumental tomb from Late Classical period, designed by Pytheos (362-351 B.C.). Chariot frieze (funeral games ?) by Skopas, from inside or outside walls of naos.

Centauromachy frieze.

Amazonomachy frieze from east side by Skopas (blocks VIII, IX and X).

 Ionic Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon, from Middle Hellenistic period (182-165 B.C. for exterior, and 164-159 B.C. for interior frieze; plan); a baroque monument designed by Menekrates of Rhodes. Pollitt, Hellenistic, figs. 97-98; web site for ARHI 3000. Ionic frieze from exterior of enclosure wall around altar: Gigantomachy. Pollitt, Hellenistic, figs. figs. 99-109; web site for ARHI 3000 (east frieze).

East frieze with Olympians: Zeus (Pollitt, fig. 99), Athena (Pollitt, fig. 100), Artemis.

South frieze with gods of light: Eos (goddess of dawn) and Helios (sun god; Pollitt fig. 102).

North frieze with gods of war and darkness: figure identified as Deimos (god of Terror) or Phaethon (son of Helios) and Nyx (goddess of night; Pollitt figs. 107 and 108).

North stairway projection on west side, with water gods: Triton (Pollitt fig. 104) and Amphitrite.

South stairway projection on west side, with earth gods: Dionysus.

Ionic frieze from interior of altar court, in continuous narrative style: story of Telephos (son of Heracles and founder of Pergamon). Pollitt, Hellenistic, figs. 213, 216 and 218.

Relief showing prepration of raft for Auge (mother of Telephos; Pollitt, fig. 216).

Relief showing Heracles' discovery of exposed Telephos (Pollitt, fig. 218).
 
 

 Architectural terms Parts of a temple plan:

Pronaos (= front porch)

Naos (= room with cult statue)

Opisthodomos (= back porch)

Peristyle (= colonnade)

Stepped platform

Elevation of a Doric temple

Stepped platform

Column: Shaft - flute

Capital Echinus

Abacus

Entablature: Architrave

Frieze Metope (sometimes sculptured)

Triglyph

Cornice

Pediment (sometimes with sculpture)

Elevation of an Ionic or Corinthian temple:

Stepped platform

Column: Moulded base

Shaft - flute

Volute

Ionic capital: Echinus

Abacus

Corinthian capital: Girdle of acanthus leaves

Abacus

Entablature: Architrave

Frieze (sometimes sculptured) and/or dentil course

Cornice

Pediment (usually without sculpture)