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 (Paestum Museum) Herakles Steals Tripod from Apollo 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, Euphronios ca. Wurzburg 530 BCE (right) Master B – North Frieze Battle of Gods and Giants Euphronios 530 BCE Villa Guilia, Rome Hermonax Basel 85.483 470-440 BCE Foundry Painter ca. 480 BCE A “Bi-Lingual” Amphora 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 & Athena (left) Theseus & Antiope (below & right) ( Athenian Treasury (Delphi) ca. 490 BCE Painter of Tarquinia C 3984 Andokides Painter (Florence 3797) 550-525 BCE 525 BCE Berlin Painter 500-490 Berlin Painter 490-480 Ok, That’s It! Birth of Dionysos Alkimchos P c. 460 BCE (Boston 95.39) (right, above) Bonn, Germany (above, center) Kleophrades Painter 500-490 B. C. E. (Munich 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 Peisistratos and so paved the way for the democracy in Athens 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. Paris (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: Zeus, Hera, Iris (right) Hermonax Basel 85.483 (center) Penthesileia P Ferrara 9351 (below, right) Zeus and Ganamyde (right) Louvre 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. Nikosthenes 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 Hermitage Museum) 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 Douris Bost 1970.233 Shuvalov P Berlin 2412 (above) Kerameikos Mus (above left and right) Phintias Getty 80.AE.31 Two Sides of The Same Kylix (Cup) Makron Vienna 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 (Brussels 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) Achilles 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 Karlsruhe Paris (Karlsruhe) 420-410 B.C.E. Squat Lekythos 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 .