CLCV 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Archaic Smile, Sounion, Kleobis And Biton

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 1002
• Professor: J.J.Gahan

Document Summary

Selection of the slides on the test, will be asked to identify the slide and make an explanatory comment, like the artist who made the piece of art. Plan of the acropolis: diagram on the test, identify the significant monuments, parthenon and the propylaea, the temple of athena nike and the erectheum. The acropolis: the propylaea is the entrance to the acropolis. There are two cellas, on the right has the parthenos, and the west (left) cella was designed to house the treasury of the delian league: points out the metopes. We are not just talking about metopes, but triglyphs and metopes, they are the friezes on the outside of the buildings. They go around all four sides of the structure: the style of the parthenon is doric. In addition, it has an ionic frieze that runs on the top of the cella walls and across the west porch: the two main architectural orders, the ionic order.