CLASSICS 3Q03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sangria, Lion Gate, Iberian Peninsula
25 Oct 2014
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Important for worship and development for monumental language. Marble in almost every component of the building itself. Colossal naxian apollo votive, not cult statue monumental vocabulary naxians used for votives similar language used in architecture hence ionic capital. Delian apollo = archer (c. 600 bc) a votive offering not a cult statue the largest koros (never paralled again in its dimensions in stone) Naxian apollo would have held a bow, apollo the archer. Inscription on base stone 3m per side. Unfinished koros likely depicting dionysos must have been flawed stone or mistake in quarry led to abandonment. Unfinished naxian koros another unfinished and abandoned. Naxian apollo split into several pieces and placed together. Conspicuous monument shows the naxians relationship and interest in the sanctuary vying for control of the site. Megaron at mycenae looks back to old. Architecturally monumentality these forms similar to temples constructed on naxos by the naxians.
