CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture : Classics 1A03 #5 wrod.doc
16 Jun 2013
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Doric column capital: abacus (pizza box, echinus (sloped profile, slope of echinus changes over time, establishing a relative chronology used to date the temple. Triglyph: triglyph = three cut, alternates with metope to create doric frieze, exterior & interior. Steps of the temple: stereobate (lower,usually 2) and stylobate (upper, columns placed on it) Classical period = 480-323 bc (persian sack of athens until the death of alexander the great) Hellenistic period = 323-27 bc (death of alexander the great until the principate of augustus in rome. Archaic pottery: archaic period = athens = attic style 600-480 bc, development of black figure style , introduction of red figure style . Kalydonian boar funeral games for patrokles c. 570 bc. Exekias: amphora, c. 540-530 bc, achilles and ajax, heroes of trojan war play a game, ajax three , suicide of ajax, c. 540 bc, tension in composition as ajax prepares the sword, exekias used void to dramatic effect.
