The architectural sculptures of the temple of Zeus at Olympiadate to the ten years preceding the middle of the |
Our knowledge about achievements in sculpture broadens if we look at the many lavishly-decorated temples built in Attica in the course of the The temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis was founded in |
What is left of the sculptures on the temples in the Agora is mainly fragments of pedimental sculptures and the finials of the so-called 'Theseum'. The metope-panels with the Labours of Heracles and Theseus are very badly damaged, as are the two friezes over entrance to the pronaos and opisthodomos, depicting scenes from Athenian myth. There are two other finials, one in the shape of a nereid, one in the shape of a Victory, that probably came from the temple of Ares in the Agora and the Stoa Basileios respectively. From the temple of Nemesis at Rhamnus we have a finial - attributed to Agoracritus - showing the rape of Oreithyia by Boreas, the North Wind. Lastly there are the only sculptures that survive from the temple of Poseidon at Sunium: a female figure from a pediment composition and a handful of fragments of the 'Battle with the Centaurs' frieze.
The frieze on the choregic monument of Lysicrates belongs to the transition from Classical to Hellenistic art at Athens. If we look outside Attica, the most important works in the Athenian tradition are at Delos (a finial from the temple of Apollo) and at Bassae (the interior frieze of the temple of Apollo). Dating to about |
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