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  • Geometric Krater
  • From the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 740 B.C.
  • Meander (key) pattern of horizontal bands, Geometric Vase
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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  • Hero and Centaur (Herakles and Nessus)
  • ca. 750-730 B.C.
  • Geometric, Chiron had human front legs
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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  • Mantiklos (Sculptor) Apollo
  • From Thebes, Greece ca. 700-680 B.C.
  • Bronze statuette, Orientalizing Art
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  • Corinthian Black Figure Amphora
  • From Rhodes, Greece ca. 625-600 B.C.
  • Orientalizing, Black Figure
  • British Museum, London
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  • Lintel of Temple A
  • From Prinias, Greece ca. 625 B.C.
  • Orientalizing reliefs
  • Archeological Museum, Herakleion
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  • Lady Of Auxerre (Mantiklos)
  • Limestone kore ca. 650-625 B.C.
  • Orientalizing
  • Louvre, Paris
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  • New York Kouros ca. 600 B.C.
  • Archaic, nude, almost Egyptian
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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  • Calf Bearer (Moschophoros)
  • Dedicated by Rhonbos on the Acropolis, Athens, ca. 560 B.C.
  • Thin cloak, smiling, Archaic
  • Acropolis Museum, Athens
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  • Anavysos Kouros (for Kroisos)
  • Grave marker from Anavysos, Greece ca. 530 B.C.
  • Painted in encaustic (wax), Archaic
  • National Archeological Museum, Athens
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  • Peplos Kore
  • From the Acropolis, Athens ca. 530 B.C.
  • Archaic
  • Acropolis Museum, Athens
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  • Kore from the Acropolis, Athens ca. 510 B.C.
  • Archaic
  • Acropolis Museum, Athens
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  • Temple of Hera (“Basilica”)
  • Paestum, Italy ca. 550 B.C.
  • Doric temple
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  • West Pediment from the Temple of Artemis
  • From Corfu, Greece ca. 600-580 B.C.
  • Archaic, limestone, medusa and felines
  • Gigantomachy and Trojan War
  • Archeological Museum, Corfu
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  • Siphian Treasury
  • From Delphi, Greece ca. 530 B.C.
  • Ionic, Caryatids
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  • Gigantomachy on the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury
  • From Delphi, Greece ca. 530 B.C.
  • Archaic, Ionic
  • Archaelogical Museum, Delphi
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  • Francois Vase (Kleitias and Ergotimos)
  • From Chiusi, Italy, ca. 570 B.C.
  • Attic Black Figure Volute Krater, Centauromachy
  • Museo Archeologico, Florence
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  • Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game (Exekias)
  • Black Figure
  • From Vulci, Italy ca. 540-530 B.C.
  • Vatican Museum, Rome
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  • Achilles and Ajax playing dice (Andokides)
  • From Orvieto, Italy ca. 525-520 B.C.
  • Bilingual painting, amphora
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  • Herakles wrestling Antaeus (Euphronios)
  • from Cerveteri, Italy ca. 510 B.C.
  • Attic red figure calyx krater
  • Louvre, Paris
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  • Three Revelers (Euthymides)
  • From Vulci, Italy ca. 510 B.C.
  • Amphora, foreshortening
  • Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
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  • Girl preparing to bathe (Onesimos)
  • Interior of an Attic red figure kylix, nude, foreshortened
  • From Chiusi, Italy ca. 490 B.C.
  • Musees Royaux, Brussels
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  • Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece ca. 500-490 B.C.
  • Doric columns
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  • West Pediment of the Temple of Aphaia
  • Aegina, Greece ca. 500-490 B.C.
  • Dying warrior, Archaic
  • Glyptothek, Munich
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  • Dying Warrior from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia
  • ca. 490-480 B.C
  • Beginning of Classicism
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* East pediment from the Temple of Zeus * Olympia, Greece ca. 470-456 B.C. * Chariot race of Pelops * Horrified seer officially classical * Archeological Museum, Olympia
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* Athena, Herakles, and Atlas witht the apples of the Hesperides * Metope from the Temple of Zeus * Classical * Archeological Museum, Olympia
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* Kritios Boy * From the Acropolis, Athens, Greece ca. 480 B.C. * Contrapposto * Acropolis Museum, Athens
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* Riace Warrior * From Riace, Italy ca. 460-450 * Bronze, contrapposto, classical * Archeological Museum, Reggio Calabria
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* Charioteer * From the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, Greece ca. 470 B.C. * Classical * Archeological Museum, Delphi
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* Zeus (or Poseidon) * From Cape Artemision, Greece ca. 460-450 B.C. * Bronze, Classical * National Archeological Museum, Athens
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* Discobolos (Myron) * Roman marble copy after bronze ca. 450 B.C. * Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
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* Doryphoros Spear Bearer (Polykleitos) * From Pompeii, Italy ca. 450-440 B.C. * Classical Canon, contrapposto * Museo Nazionale, Naples
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* Pericles (Kresilas) herm * ca. 429 B.C. * Vatican Museum, Rome
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* Acropolis (Pericles) * Athens, Greece ca. 447-438 B.C.
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* The Parthenon (Iktinos and Kallikrates) * Acropolis, Athens ca. 447-438 B.C. * Statue of Athena made by Phidias
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* Athena Parthenos (Phidias) * In the cella of the Parthenon, chryselephantine, holding Nike
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* Helios and his horses and Dionysus * East pediment of the Parthenon * Helios rising to bring the day
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* Three Goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite) * From the east pediment of the Parthenon * British Museum, London * Also a panathenaic procession relief
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* Propylaia (Mnesikles) * Entrance to the Acropolis * Doric on outside, Ionic inside * ca. 437-432 B.C.
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* Erecthion * From the Acropolis, for Athena, ca. 421-405 B.C. * Assymetrical, Ionic, caryatids
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* Temple of Athena Nike (Kallikrates) * From the Acropolis, ca. 427-424 B.C. * Ionic, contains Nike adjusting her sandal
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* Grave Stele of Hegeso * From the Dipylon cemetery, Athens ca. 400 B.C. * National Archeological Museum, Athens
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* Warrior taking leave of his wife (Achilles Painter) * Attic white ground lekythos * From Eretria, Greece ca. 440 B.C. * National Archeological Museum, Athens
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* Artemis and Apollo slaying the children of Niobe (Niobid Painter) * Attic red-figure calyx krater * From Orvieto, Italy, ca. 450 B.C. * Foreshortening * Louvre, Paris
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* Hermes bringing the infant Dionysos (Phiale Painter) * Attic white ground calyx krater * From Vulci, Italy, ca. 440-435 B.C. * Vatican Museums, Rome
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* Youth Diving * Painted on the ceiling of the Tomb of the Diver * From Paestum, Italy ca. 480 B.C. * Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Paestum
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* Aphrodite of Knidos (Praxiteles) * ca. 350-340 * High Classical nude * Vatican Museums, Rome
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* Head of a Woman * From Chios, Greece ca. 320-300 B.C. * High Classical * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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* Hermes and the Infant Dionysos (Praxiteles) * From the Temple of Hera, Olympia, Greece ca. 340 * High Classical * Archeological Museum, Olympia
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* Grave stele of a young hunter * Found by the Ilissos River, Athens, ca. 340-330 B.C. * High Classical * National Archeological Museum, Athens
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* Apoxyomenos Scraper (Lysippos) * ca. 330 B.C. * High Classical, movement * Vatican Museums, Rome
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* Weary Herakles *Farnese Herakles* (Lysippos) * From Rome, ca. 320 B.C. * Signed Glykon of Athens * Museo Nazionale, Naples
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* head of Alexander the Great * From Pella, Greece ca. 200-150 B.C. * Archeological Museum, Pella
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* Stag Hunt (Gnosis) * From Pella, Greece ca. 300 B.C. * Pebble mosaic * Skiagraphia (shadow painting) invented by Apollodorus * Archeological Museum, Pella
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* Battle of Issus (Philoxenos of Eretria) * From the House of the Faun, Pompeii, Italy ca. 310 B.C. * Alexander the Great, tesserae * Museo Nazionale, Naples
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* Theater (Polykleitos the Younger) * From Epidauros, Greece ca. 350 B.C.
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* Tholos (Theodoros of Phokaia) * In Delphi, Greece ca. 375 B.C. * Doric Order
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* Choragic Monument of Lysikrates * From Athens, Greece ca. 334 B.C. * Held a bronze tripod
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* Altar of Zeus * From Pergamon, Turkey ca. 175 B.C. * Hellenistic, Ionic * Staatliche Museen, Berlin
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* Athena Battling Alykoneos * Gigantomachy frieze on the Altar of Zeus at Pergamon, Turkey
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* Gallic Chieftain killing himself and his wife (Epigonos) * Roman copy, bronze original from Pergamon ca. 230-220 B.C. * Hellenistic * Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
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* Dying Gaul (Epigonos) * From Pergamon, Turkey ca. 230-220 B.C. * Museo Capitolino, Rome
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* Nike of Samothrace * From Samothrace, Greece ca. 190 B.C. * Hellenistic * Louvre, Paris
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* Aphrodite (Alexandros of Antioch on the Meander) Venus de Milo * From Melos, Greece ca. 150-125 B.C. * Hellenistic * Louvre, Paris
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* Aphrodite, Eros, and Pan * From Delos, Greece ca. 100 B.C. * Hellenistic * National Archeological Museum, Athens
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* Sleeping satyr (Barberini Faun) * From Rome ca. 230-200 B.C. * Hellenistic * Glyptothek, Munich
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* Seated Boxer * From Rome ca. 100-50 B.C. * Hellenistic, bronze * Rome
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* Old Market Woman * ca. 150-100 B.C. * Hellenistic * Metropolitan, New York
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* Demosthenes (Polyeuktos) * ca. 280 B.C. * Hellenistic NIP SLIP * Copenhagen
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* Laocoon and his sons (Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydorus) * From Titus's Palace, Rome ca. Early First Century A.D. * Hellenistic * Vatican Museum, Rome
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* Head of Odysseus (Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros) * From Tiberius's Villa, Italy ca. First Century A.D. * Sperlonga
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