CLST 404 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lemnian Athena, Delian League, Phidias

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 404
• Professor: Zaccagnino

Document Summary

461 bce his main opponent cimon was eliminated via ostracism. 454 bce the treasury of the delian league was moved from delos to athens. 449 bce peace of kallias (this date is disputed: a treaty established between the delian league and persia that ended the greco- Persian wars: negotiated by kallias, and athenian politician. 446-431 bce pericles is elected strategos (general) every year. A colossal bronze statue sculpted by pheidias, which stood between the propylaea and the parthenon on the acropolis: pheidias also sculpted athena parthenos and lemnian athena, both which were on the acropolis. Fragment from 460-450 bce: relays an account of the statue of athena promakhos, inscription mentions that the trophies won in the persian war were placed around the pedestal of the statue. Taken to constantinople as a trophy in 465 ce and was later destroyed. 447 bce program of buildings on the acropolis (marked)