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Acropolis Archaic, 40, 41, 52, 67–70, 78, 114–115, 156, 157–158, 193, 194 Destruction by Persians, 17, 43, 49–52, 59, 60 Cambridge University Press 0521820405 - The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles Jeffrey M. Hurwit Index More information INDEX Acropolis Alexander the Great, Archaic, 40, 41, 52, 67–70, 78, dedication of shields on east 114–115, 156, 157–158, 193, 194 architrave of Parthenon, 245, destruction by Persians, 17, 43, 248 49–52, 59, 60, 61–62, 68, 69, 74, dedication of Persian spoils within 78, 86, 149, 158, 181, 234, 240, Parthenon, 245 244 Alkamenes Early Classical, 53–54, 70, 76, 77, Dionysos Eleuthereus (statue) by, 217 78–79, 83, 156, 166, 206 possible role in carving of Parthenon geology of, 1–10 sculptures, 96, 124, 139 Hellenistic, 41, 245–246 Prokne and ltys Group by, 175, 177, Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age), 10, 239, 242 61–65 Alkibiades, 93, 174, 190 Neolithic, 10 portrait of, in Pinakotheke, 162, 242 Relation of Periclean A. to past, Amazons and Amazonomachies, 59–86, 100, 240 in pediment of Temple of Athena Roman, 168, 176, 242–248 Nike, 185, 187, 242, 244 Spartan occupations of, 88, 93 in Stoa Poikile, 228 walls of, 1–2, 53, 70, 78–79, 80, 94, 97, on exterior of shield of Athena 116, 195, 199–200, 202, 210 Parthenos, 124, 148–149, 229, Aeschines, 242, 244 on the Propylaia, 163 on “mystery building” of c. 480, 124 Aeschylus, 47, 244 on Parthenon west metopes, 124, Aglauros, 47, 130, 172, 212 229, 242 grotto and sanctuary of, 7, 52, 172 Anakreon, portrait of, 202 Agon (as theme of Acropolis Angelitos’s Athena, 53 iconography), 243, 248, 249, 251 Anthesteria, 236 Agora, 89, 99, 100, 146, 155, 203, 206, anthippasia, 235 228, 231 Aphrodite, 14, 212 Agorakritos, 96, 124, 175, 186, 191 Pandemos, 186 Agrippa, Monument of, 102 sanctuary of A. and Eros, 211, 214 297 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521820405 - The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles Jeffrey M. Hurwit Index More information 298 efh Index apobatai, 236 nature of, 12, 16–37 on Parthenon frieze, 141, 143, 228, on east frieze of Parthenon, 146 229, 233, 235, 249, 251 origins of, 12–16 Apollo, cave of, 7 Athena and Poseidon displaying tokens Apollodoros, 39, 42–43, 46–47 (statue group), 238–239 Archaios Neos (see also Erechtheion), 40, Athena born from head of Zeus (statue 45, 68, 70–72, 76, 83, 94, 107, group), 238–239 166, 169, 170, 171, 172, 204, Athena Ergane, 22, 27–34, 75, 201 205, 206 precinct or shrine of, 24, 75, 201 blocks from, built into Acropolis Athena Hippia, 22, 26–27, 31 north wall, 70, 210 Athena Hygieia, 24, 36, 223, 277 n. 6 blocks from, built into Great Flight shrine of, 24, 192–194, 223 of Steps, 201 Athena Nike (see also Temple of Athena Archon Basileus, 210, 230 Nike), 21, 40, 188–189 Areopagos, 4, 50–51, 244 bastion and sanctuary of, 64–65, 98, Ares, 22, 186 181–191, 206 Ariobarzanes II Philopater (king of cult statue of, 78, 181, 183, 276 Cappadocia), 216 n. 4 Aristophanes, 214, 217 priestess of, 182 Lysistrata, 190 Athena Parthenos (statue of ), 21, 84, Arkteia, arktoi, 196 90, 92, 96, 97, 107, 110, 112, 114, Arrhephoria, 211–212, 235 122, 123, 126, 146–154, 169, Arrhephoroi, 107, 210–213, 227, 228, 174, 180, 187, 188, 217, 231, 230, 235 237, 239, 240, 244, 248 House of (Building III?), 107, 166, base of, 34, 148, 151–153, 187, 206, 210–213 239 Artemis Brauronia, 236 cost, 97, 122, 153 sanctuary of, 98, 159, 193, 194–198, dedication of, 96, 147 199, 237 lack of cult status (?), 90–91, statue of, by Praxiteles, 196, 197 111–112, 154, 231 Asklepios, 218, 222 Nike in hand of, 90, 123, 150, 188, Sanctuary of A. and Hygieia, 10, 240 218–223 shield of, 96, 124, 126, 148–149, 187, a-ta-na-po-ti-ni-ja, 16, 44 242–243, 244 Athena, passim Athena Polias (see also Archaios Neos, and Erechtheus/Erichthonios, 37, Erechtheion), 17, 21, 40, 45, 112, 46–48 146, 173, 180, 183, 211, 212, and the giants, 73, 38–42 231 and Hephaistos, 27, 146 altar of, 112, 206–207, 209 and heroes, 24, 35–37 priestess of, 107, 167, 211, 213, 230, Archaic statues of, 78 235 birth of, 37–38, 47–48, 128, 130–133, statue of, 17, 21, 34, 39, 40, 68, 76–77, 238–239 78, 90, 112, 164, 166, 167, 169, contest with Poseidon, 26, 37, 42–44, 174, 180, 181 46, 48, 128, 129–130, 170, 172, Athena Promakhos (see also Bronze 226, 230, 243, 251 Athena), 21, 79, 81 festivals of, 21, 127 Attalos I of Pergamon, Mycenaean antecedents of, 14–16 statue group dedicated by, 41, 202, name of, 11–12, 14 245–246, 248 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521820405 - The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles Jeffrey M. Hurwit Index More information Index egh 299 Attalos II of Pergamon, Congress Decree, 94 Monument of, 102, 202 Cyclopean wall (see Mycenaean Augustus, 247–248 fortification wall) Temple of Roma and A., 103, 202, 247–248 Delian League, 80, 96, 244 autochthony, 47 transfer of treasury to Athens, 96 Demeter, 14, 26 Blond Boy, 53 Demetrios Poliorketes, Bluebeard, 67 lives in opisthodomos of Parthenon, Bluebeard Temple (see also 108–109 Hekatompedon), 67–68 Demosthenes, Boardman, J., 228–229 on Bronze Athena, 80–81, 83 Boiotian and Chalkidian Victory on Propylaia and Parthenon, 163, Monument, 79, 83, 241 229 bouphonia, 207, 209 Dionysos (see also City Dionysia, Boutes, 71, 126, 164, 170, 179, 204 Temple of Dionysos, Theater of Bronze Athena (Promakhos), by Dionysos), 131 Pheidias, 79–84, 86, 146, 195, diphrophoroi, 227, 230, 235 200, 229, 237, 240, 241, 244 earthquake of 427/6, 91 bronze casting pit (south slope), 80 Eleusinia, 235 Building B (Archaic), 158 Eleusinion, 218 Building III (House of the Elgin, Lord, 126 Arrhephoroi?), 210–213 Endoios Building IV (Heroon of Pandion?), 166, seated marble statue by, 78 203–204 entasis, 118, 121, 156, 168 entrance court (Archaic), 158 Carrey drawings, 127, 128, 139 Epidauros, 218 Caves, epistatai,95 of Aglauros, 7, 52, 172 Eponymous heroes, 145, 203, 230 of Apollo, 7 Erechtheion, 17, 40–41, 45, 55, 71–72, of Pan, 7, 229 75, 76, 77, 78, 84, 88, 102, 129, of Zeus, 7 160, 162, 164–180, 183, 192, Centauromachy 201, 205, 210, 240, 242, 247 on Parthenon south metopes, architects of, 172–173 126–128, 237, 242 date of, 71, 98, 173–174 on sandals of Athena Parthenos, Early Classical predecessor (see 149–150, 237, 242 Pre-Erechtheion), on shield of Bronze Athena, 80, 237, fire in (?), 92, 174, 275 n. 26 242 frieze of, 175–178, 190, 191, 239 Center Street, 198, 201, 202, 205, identification of, 164–168 210 Karyatids of, 72, 77, 166, 170–172, Central terrace of Acropolis, 63, 83, 174, 175, 179, 205, 239 205–206 optical refinements of, 168, 173 Chalkeia, 211 relation to Archaios Neos, 71–72 Chalkotheke, 102, 195, 198–200, 201, relation to Parthenon, 175, 179–180 202 relation to Propylaia, 162, 173 City (Great) Dionysia, 214, 235, 243, relation to Temple of Athena Nike, 249 173, 183 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521820405 - The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles Jeffrey M. Hurwit Index More information 300 efh Index Erechtheion (cont.) Hephaistos, 27, 31, 38, 39, 47, 71, 132, restoration during Augustan era, 168, 164, 170, 179, 187, 211, 227 176 Herakles, 34, 35, 39, 49, 131 unfinished details, 174 on Bluebeard Temple Erechtheus, 37, 45–48, 107, 164, 167, (Hekatompedon), 67 168, 170, 177, 178, 179, 204, on Parthenon east metope, 126 225–228, 231 Herodotos, 42, 45, 52, 86, 168 depicted in Parthenon west pediment Hesiod, 38, 39, 152 (?), 130 Hippeis dedication, 241 painting of, in Temple of Athena Homer, 11, 16, 22, 38, 39, 46, 167, 227 Polias, 167 recited at Panathenaia, 249 Erechtheus battling Eumolpos (statue Homeric Hymn to Athena,38 group), 46, 239 hoplites, 233 Erichthonios, 17, 37, 46–48, 130, 150, horos krenes (boundary of the spring), 169, 177, 204, 212, 225, 227, 231 222 ergasteria (workshops), 147, 204 horsemen, statues of, 26 Ergastinai, 211 Hygieia, 186, 218, 222 Eteoboutadai, 164, 167, 170 hydriaphoroi, 142, 143, 233, 235, 249 Eumolpos, 46, 130, 178, 225–226, 239 Euphronios, 193 Iktinos, 97, 117–118, 120, 122 Euripides, 167, 214, 217, 226 Ilissos Temple, 99 Erechtheus, 167, 174, 178, 226, 227 inventories of treasures of Athena, 92, Eurymedon, 80, 83 107, 110, 113, 145, 162 Ionic Stoa, 222 Gauls, 202, 245 Isokrates (portrait of ), 212 Gigantomachy, 38–42, 48, 226, 242, 244, 245 Kallias Decrees, 89–90, 160, 173, 174, depicted on peplos, 17, 236, 242, 249 196, 213 depicted on vases, 40 Kallias, son of Didymios, 242 in pediment of Archaios Neos, 40, 68 Kallibios, 88, 93 in pediment of Temple of Athena Kallikrates, 97, 106, 117, 122, 173, 182 Nike, 185, 187, 242, 244 Kallimachos (general), in relief, 40 Nike (Iris?) of, 52 on east metopes of Parthenon, 40, Kallimachos (sculptor), 191 126, 148, 242 golden lamp by, 164, 167 on interior of shield of Athena kanephoroi, 143–144, 235 Parthenos, 40, 148, 242 Karpion, 117, 118 Golden Nikai, 90, 92, 93, 240 Karyatids (see also Erechtheion), 72, 77, Gorgons, gorgoneia, 36, 148 166, 170–172, 175, 179, 239 Kekrops, 11, 17, 42–44, 71–72, 107, 129, Hekate Epipyrgidia, 275 n. 2 150, 179, 212, 225, 231, 239 Hekatompedon Tomb of (Kekropeion), 71–72, 6th-century temple or precinct, 171–172, 239 67–68, 109–110 Kephisodotos monument, 197 term applied to Parthenon, 106–110, Khoregic monuments 113, 199 of Thrasyllos, 7 hellenotamiai (Treasurers of the Greeks), replica of Nike temple, 276 n.
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