CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Chariot Racing, Pankration, Pediment

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 1A03
• Professor: Spencer Pope

Document Summary

Body was hammered bronze legs, handles molded bronze. The olympic games: the events from 8th c. (original events), stadion (200 m, pentathlon, wrestling. Boxing: events from c. 650 bc: Horse race: events from c. 500 bc. Temple of zeus atolympia: severe style, east pediment, oinomaos, West pediment: apollo = calm presence among violent scrum. Reads as order overcoming chaos; the rational over bestial, East pediment: static, even architectural in composition, heraldic, engaging. West pediment: chaotic, order-less, narrative rather than heraldic. Temple of zeus at olympia: 470-457 bc, 6 x 13 columns.