Transcript Slide 1

 Three
architectural orders
• Doric
• Ionic
• Corinthian
 Seeking
 Great
harmony and balance
influence in later architectural
forms: Renaissance, Greek Revival
(Neoclassic)
Summary of features:
• Simple capitols
• Wide, solid columns
• Divided frieze (into metopes and triglyphs)
 Summary
of features:
• More slender columns
• Capitol in the shape of a volute
• Undivided frieze
 Summary
of features:
• Acanthus leaves in capitol
• Undivided frieze
Ionic
Corinthian
Doric
 Athens
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).
Porch of the Maidens
Athena and Poseidon fighting to become the protectors of Athens.
Birth of Athena (from Zeus’ head)
 Pediment
 Metopes
 Frieze
of the cella
(inside the
colonnade)
 Public
building project
 Athena as protector of Athens
 Political ideology regarding the barbaroi
: iconography
 Political ideology: Panathenaic festival
and the community: civic pride/identity
 Artistic arete : best architects (Ictinus,
Callicrates and Mnesicles) and sculptor
(Phidias)
 Archaic
Style
 Severe Style
 High Classical Style
 Fourth Century Style
 Hellenistic
(6th century)
(early 5th century)
(5th century)
(4th century)
(3rd- 2nd centuries)
 Rigidity
 Frontality
 Symmetry
 Egyptian
influence
 Interest in human
body
 No motion
 Archaic smile
 Kouros, kore
 Interest
in human
body
 Contrapposto
 More relaxed posture
 No motion
 Depiction
of the
perfect human body
 Canon of proportions
 Restrained motion
 Contrapposto
 Incipient curve
 Doryphoros (450-440
BCE, by Polykleitos)
Pediment of the Parthenon
( 448-442 BCE ) by Phidias
Diskobolos (460-450 BCE)
by Myron
A
B
C
D
Archaic kouros (B)
Severe style (C)
Classical Period (A)
Hellenistic (D)
 Dionysia: competition
in Athens
 3 tragedies and one
satyr-play
 Chorus: group who
dances and sings
 Actors: Only
3 or 4.
 Actors: Males
wearing masks
Tragedy:
 Theme: Mortals cannot escape pain and
sorrow
 Objective:
• To arouse pity and horror
• Cathartic (purging) effect
 Themes: legends
of ancient dynasties
 Originality lies in the treatment not in the
plot
Main Athenian dramatists:
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Persians, Oresteia
Antigone, Oedipus
Medea
Lysistrata (comedy)