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Pericles, 5 th century BC

530 BCE 500 BCE 480 BCE 460 BCE 440 BCE Archaic Early Classical (Severe Style) High Classical.

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Pericles, 5 th century BC

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  1. 530 BCE 500 BCE 480 BCE 460 BCE 440 BCEArchaic Early Classical (Severe Style) High Classical

  2. 480 BCE – Persians occupy and sack Athens, destroying the original Athenian acropolis480 BCE – Later that year the Greeks beat the Persians in a naval battle at Salamis478 BCE – Greeks form the Delian League which collects funds from an alliance of city states to protect Greece; funds are kept at Delos454 BCE – Pericles arranges for the funds to be moved to Athens for safe keeping447 – 438 BCE – Building of the Parthenon, Iktinos and Kallikrates447 – 432 BCE, Phidias manages the sculptural program

  3. Pericles, 5th century BC

  4. This is a model of the sculpture of Athena Parthenos by Phidias, which the Parthenon was built to house. The work was destroyed long ago, but ancient historians left detailed descriptions of it.

  5. Another famous work, also long lost, by Phidias. This sculpture of Zeus Olympios was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and served as Horatio Greenough’s model for his sculpture of George Washington made in the 1840’s.

  6. “Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to His Friends” by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, painted in 1868

  7. c. 430 BCEc. 175 BCE

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  9. What was the original function of this object, and what is the subject being depicted? From what period in Greek art is this work and how does it embody the values of that period?

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