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The Tyrant Slayers: The Heroic Image in Fifth Century B.C. Athenian Art and Politics 2nd ed. 1991. Sture Brunnsåker, The Tyrant-Slayers of Kritios and Nesiotes. A critical study of the sources and restorations (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Athen, 4°, 17), Stockholm 1971. ISBN 978-91-85086-00-9. ISBN 91-85086-00-2.
The Parthenon of Athens, built in the 5th century BC following the Greek victory in the Persian wars. Fifth-century Athens was the Greek city-state of Athens in the time from 480 to 404 BC. Formerly known as the Golden Age of Athens , the latter part being the Age of Pericles , it was buoyed by political hegemony , economic growth and cultural ...
Bust in the British Museum. The statue of Pericles with the Corinthian Helmet is a lost, life-sized statue of the Athenian statesman and general Pericles.Today, only some of the base survives.
The relief is made of Pentelic marble, and it is 2,20 m. tall, 1,52 m. wide, and 15 cm thick. [4] It depicts the three most important figures of the Eleusianian Mysteries; the goddess of agriculture and abundance Demeter, her daughter Persephone queen of the Underworld and the Eleusinian hero Triptolemus, the son of Queen Metanira, [3] [4] in what appears to be a rite. [1]
Natural marble. By the classical period, roughly the 5th and 4th centuries BC, monumental sculpture was composed almost entirely of marble or bronze; with cast bronze becoming the favoured medium for major works by the early 5th century BC; many pieces of sculpture known only in marble copies made for the Roman market were originally made in bronze.
This motif occurs in various late 5th century depictions of Ares at Athens. [117] Numerous other copies of this statue are known from the Roman period. One of these copies was found in fragments in the Agora (inv. S 475a-e) in packing behind the Bouleuterion screen wall, where it was deposited after weathering ca. 10-20 AD. [118]
Films set in 5th-century Byzantine Empire (1 P) F. Films about Kalidasa (7 P) Films set in the Gupta Empire (1 C, 1 P) Films set in the Magadha Empire (3 C, 4 P) J.
By the 4th century BC, winch and pulley hoists were regarded by Aristotle as common for architectural use (Mech. 18; 853b10-13). [76] Windlass: The Greek scientist Archimedes was the inventor of the windlass. Windmill: Hero of Alexandria in first-century Roman Egypt described what appears to be a wind-driven wheel to power a machine. His ...