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Golden Age of Athens1. ArchitectureThree architectural ordersDoricIonicCorinthian

Seeking harmony and balance

Great influence in later architectural forms: Renaissance, Greek Revival (Neoclassic)

1. Architecture: Doric order

1. Architecture: Doric order

1. Architecture: Doric orderSummary of features:

Simple capitolsWide, solid columnsDivided frieze (into metopes and triglyphs)2. Architecture: Ionic order

2. Architecture: Ionic order

2. Architecture: Ionic orderSummary of features:

More slender columnsCapitol in the shape of a voluteUndivided frieze 3. Architecture: Corinthian order

3. Architecture: Corinthian order

3. Architecture: Corinthian orderSummary of features:

Acanthus leaves in capitolUndivided friezeWhich is which?

Ionic Corinthian Doric

Harmony vs. dynamism

American Neoclassical Architecture

4. Athens and the AcropolisAthens reemerges from the Persian wars as a ruling power.The treasury of the Delian league is transferred to Athens.Pericles starts the reconstruction of the Acropolis (430-420 BCE).

4. The Acropolis today

4. The Acropolis (reconstruction)

5. The Propylea

6. Temple of Athena Nike

7. Statue of Athena Promachos

7. The Erechtheion

Porch of the Maidens

8. The Parthenon

228. The Parthenon

239. Statue of Anthena Parthenos

2410. Parthenon: Pediment

2511. Parthenon: Frieze (Panathenaic procession)

2611. Parthenon: Frieze (Panathenaic procession)

2712. The Parthenons significancePublic building projectAthena as protector of AthensPolitical ideology regarding the barbaroi : iconographyPolitical ideology: Panathenaic festival and the community: civic pride/identityArtistic arete : best architects (Ictinus, Callicrates and Mnesicles) and sculptor (Phidias)13. SculptureArchaic Style (6th century)Severe Style (early 5th century)High Classical Style (5th century)Fourth Century Style(4th century)Hellenistic(3rd- 2nd centuries)13. Archaic Style (6th century)

13. Archaic Style (6th century)RigidityFrontalitySymmetryEgyptian influenceInterest in human bodyNo motionArchaic smileKouros, kore

14. Severe Style (early 5th century)

14. Severe Style (early 5th century)Interest in human bodyContrappostoMore relaxed postureNo motion

15. High Classical Style (5th century)

15. High Classical Style (5th century)Depiction of the perfect human bodyCanon of proportionsRestrained motionContrappostoIncipient curveDoryphoros (450-440 BCE, by Polykleitos)

15. High Classical Style (5th century)

Pediment of the Parthenon ( 448-442 BCE ) by Phidias

Diskobolos (460-450 BCE) by Myron

15. High Classical Style (5th century)

16. Athens: theater of Dionysius

17. Greek theater

Dionysia: competition in Athens3 tragedies and one satyr-playChorus: group who dances and sings

17. Greek theater

Actors: Only 3 or 4.Actors: Males wearing masks

17. Greek theaterTragedy:Theme: Mortals cannot escape pain and sorrowObjective:To arouse pity and horrorCathartic (purging) effectThemes: legends of ancient dynastiesOriginality lies in the treatment not in the plot

17. Greek theaterMain Athenian dramatists:

AeschylusPersians, OresteiaSophoclesAntigone, OedipusEuripidesMedeaAristophanesLysistrata (comedy)

18. Athens and Sparta in 435

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