ARHI4010/6010: Classical and Hellenistic Greek Art -

Dr. Frances Van Keuren - Study Guide for Second Midterm

Email:  fvankeur@aol.com

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.
 

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

Class web sites:

Links to other sites for class:

Class web site
(with images of works not illustrated in your texts; links to additional web sites with additional images and information; and with pop-up windows with ancient commentary on works that are and are not illustrated in your texts)

ARHI 3000 web site

Sample Tests

Study Guide for First Midterm

Study Guide for Final

Reading and Writing Assignments and Reserve Books
 
 

Early Hellenistic Period, 330-250 B.C.

C Lysippos' Youth Scraping Himself, Apoxyomenos (bronze); Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 39; web site for ARHI 3000.

C Lysippos' Agias, athletic victor in pankration (boxing and wrestling), from Daochos Monument, Delphi; copy of bronze statue by Lysippos at Pharsalos, Thessaly, home town of Daochos.

C Lysippos' Eros testing bow, located at Thespiai in Boeotia (bronze); Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 40.

C Lysippos' Satyr & Dionysus, in Athens ? (bronze).

C Lysippos' colossal Heracles, in Agora or marketplace at Sikyon (bronze), baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 41.

C Lysippos' and Leochares' Lion Hunt, a mosaic from a dining hall, house of Krateros, Pella; possibly a copy of work showing Alexander, lion and Krateros at Delphi in bronze, baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 34.

C Lysippos' Granikos Monument, erected at Dion in Macedonia and including Alexander and 25 of his guard (bronze), baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 36.

C Lysippos' Alexander (bronze), calm baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, figs. 7-8.

O Portrait of Seuthes III ? (bronze), found in stone-lined pit in front of entrance to his tomb near Seuthopolis, Thrace (baroque).

C Eutychides' colossal statue of Tyche, placed in Antioch in Syria at Orontes River (bronze), baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 1.

C Phanis' Sacrificing Woman, Epithyousa (bronze), baroque composition and rococo mood; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 49.

C Polyeuktos' Demosthenes from Athenian Agora = Marketplace (bronze), Attic simple style; Pollitt, Hellenistic, figs. 55-56; web site for ARHI 3000.

C Kephisodotos the Younger's Menander (inventor of New Comedy) from theatre of Dionysus in Athens (bronze), Attic simple style; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 82.

C Kephisodotos the Younger's (Medici) Aphrodite (marble?), rococo.

Middle Hellenistic Period, 250-160 B.C.

C Doidalsas' Crouching or Bathing Aphrodite (originally with Eros ?), perhaps in Bithynia (bronze ?), rococo with baroque composition; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 50.

C Boethos' Boy with Goose (marble or bronze), rococo with baroque composition; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 132.

C Polykles' Sleeping Hermaphrodite (bronze), rococo with baroque composition; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 160.

O? & C Polykles' Sleeping Eros (bronze), rococo with baroque composition; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 135.

C Epigonos' Menelaos & Patroklos, perhaps in Athena Sanctuary at Pergamon (bronze), baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 119.

C Epigonos' Achilles & Penthesileia, perhaps from Athena Sanctuary at Pergamon (bronze), baroque.

C Epigonos' Gaulic Chieftain and Wife, from Gaul Monument in Athena Sanctuary at Pergamon (bronze), baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 86; web site for ARHI 3000.

C Epigonos' (or Isogonos') Dying Trumpeter, from Gaul Monument in Athena Sanctuary at Pergamon (bronze), baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 85; web site for ARHI 3000.

C Myron from Thebes's Drunken Old Woman, perhaps in Smyrna (bronze), realistic baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 154.

O Pythokritos' ? Nike from Sanctuary of Kabeiroi at Samothrace (Parian marble), baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 117.

Late Hellenistic Period, 160-30 B.C.

O Aphrodite from gymnasium, Melos, rococo with baroque torsion; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 172; web site for ARHI 3000.

O Kraters with satyrs & maenads with Dionysos (marble); Borghese krater in Louvre found in gardens, Rome, and two additional kraters found in shipwreck off coast of Mahdia, Tunisia; Neo-Attic; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 181.

O Relief with Three Graces, Neo-Attic.

O Dancers (Pentelic marble), Neo-Attic.

O Fountain with sea centaurs & nymphs, found in Rome (marble), Neo-Attic.

O Demetrius of Syria ?, found in Rome (bronze), realistic baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 74.

O Boxer, found in Rome (bronze), realistic baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 157.

C ? by Hagesandros, Polydoros and Athenodoros of a Hellenistic Statuary Group, depicting the Blinding of Cyclops Polyphemos by Odysseus, from Tiberiusí dining grotto at Sperlonga (bronze), baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, figs. 126-128.

Works in Hellenistic Styles, which were produced during Julio-Claudian Period of the Early Roman Imperial Era (27 B.C.-68 A.D.)

O ? by Hagesandros, Polydoros and Athenodoros of Laocoon, in palace of Titus, Rome in Roman times, baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig. 124.