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Archaic Relief Sculpture 550-490 B.C.E

Archaic Relief Sculpture 550-490 B.C.E.

Francois Vase – “A Dictionary of Mythology” Attic, Black Figure 580-70 B.C.E. Allied Invasion, Sept. 9, 1945

Foce del Sele, Italy Orestes Murders Aegisthus Herakles Wrestles Antaios

Foce del Sele ca. 550 ( Museum)

Herakles Steals Tripod from Herakles Captures Kerkopes Siphnian Treasury at Delphi 525 BCE

Delphi Island of Siphnos Delphi Siphnian Treasury 525 BCE Looking toward port of Itea From the Temple of Apollo (Delphi) Looking up toward the Temple of Apollo (Delphi) Temple of Apollo, Delphi

Sacred Way – Treasury of Sikyon (Doric, just before 548 BCE) and beyond it the Treasury of the Sacred Way ascending past Siphnians (Ionic, 525 BCE) the treasuries and toward the Temple of Apollo Siphnian Treasury 1. Master A (earlier) – Two Plains (above) 2. Master B (later) – Movement in Space (below) Siphnian Treasury (Delphi) 525 BCE (based on information from Herodotus)

East Frieze by “Master B” 1) Gods on Olympos, 2) Battle Scene Juxtaposed in Homeric “Parataxis” Siphnian Treasury, East Frieze Remnants of Paint Siphnian Treasury, East Frieze

Foundry Ptr 490-480 BCE, ca. Wurzburg 530 BCE (right) Master B – North Frieze Battle of Gods and Giants

Euphronios 530 BCE Villa Guilia, Rome

Hermonax 85.483 470-440 BCE Foundry Painter ca. 480 BCE A “Bi-Lingual” c. 520 BCE The Sacred Way, Delphi Treasury of the Athenians ca 490 BCE Statue Base

Athenian Treasury – Statue Base Athenian Treasury (Delphi) ca. 490 BCE Theseus & (left)

Theseus & Antiope (below & right) (

Athenian Treasury (Delphi) ca. 490 BCE Painter of Tarquinia C 3984 Andokides Painter ( 3797) 550-525 BCE 525 BCE Painter 500-490 490-480 Ok, That’s It!

Birth of Dionysos Alkimchos P c. 460 BCE ( 95.39) (right, above) Bonn, Germany (above, center)

Kleophrades Painter 500-490 B. C. E. ( 2344)

Dinos Painter 425-400 B.C.E. Berlin 2402 (right)

Boston 98.936 (center)

Copenhagen Ptr (above left)

The Tyrannicides

In 514 BCE Harmodios and Aristogeiton assasinated the sons of the tyrant and so paved the way for the democracy in which began in 509 BCE. A “Bi-Lingual” Amphora c. 520 BCE Andokides Painter Amphora Andokides Painter c. 525 B.C.E. Munich Euthymides (above, center) “Thus never Euphronios” Munich

Sosias c. 500 B.C.E. Berlin (above, right)

Amasis Painter 540-30 B.C.E. (Bib. Nat.) 222 Euphronios (Villa Giulia, Rome) 530 BCE Euphronios (Villa Giulia, Rome) Euphronios Leningrad B 1650

Phintias c. 510 BCE, Munich (below)

Hetairai* (women who hired out for symposia)

* The singular is “hetaira” Euphronios (Munich) Foundry Ptr 490-480 BCE, Wurzburg Foundry Ptr Lond E78 490-480 BCE

Foundry Ptr Munich 2640 490-80 B. C. E. (Hunt Coll) Berlin 500-490 (above, center & right)

Berlin Painter Myth and Cult Francois Vase (above, left)

Hermonax c 470 (A) Sotheby 1990 (left)

Painer of Tarquinia RC3984 (Florence 3797) (right)

Theseus in the 6th Century Theseus’ Heroic Deeds

Florence 91456 (B) Kachrylion Potter Grp of Berlin 2415 NY 08.258.25 Hermonax Bib. Nat 489 (left)

Munich: , Hera, Iris (right) Hermonax Basel 85.483 (center)

Penthesileia P 9351 (below, right)

Zeus and Ganamyde (right) G 366 (Early Mannerist) Nausikaa P NY 06.1021.144

Rhea, wife of Cronos and Mother of Zeus, presents Cronos with a rock in swaddling clothes. P Boston 00.334

Siren Ptr

Louvre (below left) Scenes of Everyday Life Men observing (and singing about) first swallow of spring (Attic Pelike 510-500 )

Left: “Look there, a swallow! Middle: “Really, by Herakle, It’s Spring Already”? Right: “There it is!”

Hermitage E 615 Brygos Ptr Wurzburg 479

Getty Museum 119 Berlin Ptr San Antonio 86.134.59

Makron Louvre G 143 Bost 1970.233

Shuvalov P Berlin 2412 (above)

Kerameikos Mus (above left and right) Getty 80.AE.31

Two Sides of The Same (Cup) 3698 Phintias Boston 01.8019

Douris Hirschmann col. Zurich

Wrestlers at the Palaistra (gym) (above) The outside of the Cup shows the dog In training (left)

The inside suggests That the training was Not entirely effective (right)

Triptolemos P Hunt Auction Sotades P ( A 890) (above right)

Brygos P (Boston 13.189)

Douris (right) New York 23.160.54) Brygos P Florence 151303

Ptr of London E 342 (Moscow) Douris Berlin F 2285

Location Unk. Antiphon P Oxf 6.261.V518 Milan Priv col (above r)

Antiphon P Boston 01.8073 (right, below) Berlin P Basel Ka 423

Epidromos Ptr (Louvre G112)

Cleveland 26.242 Amhitrite P Boston 98.932 (above left) Munich 2415 (left)

Paris (Louvre) (top, right) Painter

London E 448 (below, right) Paris and Helen

Makron Bost 13.186

Marriage Procession (left)

Oxford 1930.254 (left)

Menelaos finds Helen at Troy The cup is by the painter, Makron (490-480 BCE) Persephone P Toledo 67.154

And again, on a vase by the Persephone Painter (440-430 BCE), Menelaos finds Helen at Troy. The End of the 5th Century

1. Overcrowding of figures where light areas = dark area 2. Two levels 3. Truncated figures 4. Overlapping figures 5. Elaborate coiffure & clinging dresses 6. Less Narrative, more peaceful moments 7. More sensual (popularity of Aphrodite and erotes (cupids). 8. More youthful figures (e.g. Dionysos) Niobid Ptr 450 B. C. E. (Paris, Louvre) Niobid Ptr 450 B. C. E. (Paris, Louvre) Painter of the Paris (Karlsruhe) 420-410 B.C.E. Squat 420-400 B.C.E. London E 697 (above)

Squat Lekythos Meidias Painter London 410 B.C.E.

Florence 81948 c. 410 BCE (above, right)

Meidias P c. 410 hydria (left) (Florence 81947)

Meidias Painter

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