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Archaic Period

Archaic Period. Architecture, Sculpture, and Vase-Painting. The Chronology. Archaic Period 700 - 480 BCE Orientalizing Phase 700 - 600 BCE 499 BCE Burning of Sardis 490 BCE MARATHON 480 BCE Battle of Salamis (Themistokles) 479 BCE Plataia. Architecture. Doric

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Archaic Period

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  1. Archaic Period Architecture, Sculpture, and Vase-Painting

  2. The Chronology • Archaic Period 700 - 480 BCE • Orientalizing Phase 700 - 600 BCE • 499 BCE Burning of Sardis • 490 BCE MARATHON • 480 BCE Battle of Salamis (Themistokles) • 479 BCE Plataia

  3. Architecture • Doric • Temple of Apollo, Corinth (560 BCE) • Temple of Hera, Olympia (590 BCE) • Temple of Aphaia, Aegina (500 BCE) • Temple of Artemis, Corcyra (580 BCE) • Ionia • Temple of Apollo, Didyma (550 BCE) • Temple of Hera, Samos (530 BCE) • South Italy/Sicily • Temple G, Selinus (560 BCE) • Temple of Zeus, Akragas (480 BCE) • Hera I (Basilica) Poseidonia (550 BCE) • Hera II, Poseidonia (500 BCE)

  4. Corinth

  5. Temple of Apollo, Corinth • Peripteral • Hexastyle • Distyle in antis • Anta • Cella, naos • Pronaos • Opisthodomos • Pteron • Colonnade • Stylobate

  6. Remains of T. of Apollo • Limestone • Stucco • Painted • Cuttings into Bedrock • Monolithic • Entasis

  7. Olympia • Olympic Games from 776 BCE • Archaic Buildings: Treasuries, Pelopeion, Fountains, Temple of Hera

  8. Temple of Hera, Olympia • 590 BCE • Early columns in wood, replaced over time • Butresses in cella

  9. Temple of Aphaia, Aegina • Island grew to prosperity in Orientalizing period • Aphaia - local nymph • Ties to Athens • Temple is the height of Doric architecture - 500 BCE

  10. Temple plan - Aphaia • 6 X 12 Columns • Ramp • Interior Colonnade • All Doric Refinements • entasis • corner contraction • curvature

  11. Temple of Aphaia, Aegina

  12. Ionic Style • Dipteral colonnade • More elaborate interior • Ionic columns • volute capital • base • more carved detail • flat flutes

  13. Temple of Hera, Samos • Rhoikos and Theodoros • 575 - 560 BCE • 50 X 100 m • Dipteral plan • Double interior colonnade

  14. Poseidonia: Basilica • 550 BCE • Experimentation with Doric • Nonastyle?

  15. Basilica Columns

  16. Hera II, Poseidonia

  17. Treasury Buildings at Sanctuaries • Stores votives to the divinities • Each city-state at major Pan-hellenic sanctuaries • Olympia: Whole row on way to stadium • Delphi: Treasury of the Siphnians, Treasury of the Athenians • Small Ionic or Doric Buildings

  18. Delphi

  19. Treasury of the Athenians • Post-Marathon • 490/480 BCE • Deeds of Theseus and Herakles • Doric, Distyle in antis

  20. Metopes • Erymanthian Boar • Keryneian Hind

  21. Siphnian Treasury • Fixed date - 510 BCE • Jewel box of Ionic Style • Caryatids • Fine Island Marble

  22. Siphnian Friezes • North: Gigantomachy • South: Rape of Leucippidae • West: Judgement of Paris • East: Battle of Ajax and Memnon (Gods in Assembly)

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