Sanctuary vocabulary temenos Altars Temple and Altar of Hera on the island of Samos The Alpheios River Plan of Olympia Bronze Geometric Period Figurines from Olympia 700s BCE Geometric Period Horses 700s BCE ID: 661386
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Plan of Olympia
(a
Panhellenic
Sanctuary)
vocabulary: temenosSlide6
AltarsSlide7
Temple and Altar (of Hera on the island of Samos)Slide8Slide9Slide10
The
Alpheios
RiverSlide11
Plan of OlympiaSlide12
Bronze Geometric Period Figurines from Olympia (700s BCE)Slide13
Geometric Period Horses (700s BCE)Slide14Slide15
Ash Altar of Zeus at Olympia
(as described by Pausanias)Slide16
Olympia: StadiumSlide17
The Altar of Demeter
ChamyneSlide18
Bronze Geometric Period Figurines from Olympia (700s BCE)Slide19Slide20
Tripod Cauldrons: Prize or Votive Offering? 700S BCESlide21
Helmet of the Athenian General Miltiades, shortly after 490 BCESlide22
Gold Bowl dedicated by the Sons of
Kypselus
, a tyrant who ruled Corinth, ca. 650-625 BCESlide23
Statues at Olympia: (Left) Jupiter and Ganymede from the Treasury of Syracuse, ca. 479-470 BCE; (Right) Nike of
Paionios
, ca. 420 BCE, to commemorate the Battle of
Sphacteria
, ca. 425 BCESlide24
Plan of DelphiSlide25
Treasury of the AtheniansSlide26
Kleobis
and
Biton
, ca. 600 BCESlide27
Herodotos
tells the story of
Kleobis
and
Biton
....
There
was a festival of Hera in Argos, and their
mother absolutely
had to be conveyed to the temple by a team of oxen. But their oxen had not come back from the fields in time, so the youths took the yoke upon their own shoulders under constraint of time. They drew the wagon, with their mother riding atop it, traveling five miles until they arrived at the temple. [1.31.3] When they had done this and had been seen by the entire gathering, their lives came to an excellent end, and in their case the god made clear that for human beings it is a better thing to die than to live. The Argive men stood around the youths and congratulated them on their strength; the Argive women congratulated their mother for having borne such children. [1.31.4] She was overjoyed at the feat and at the praise, so she stood before the image and prayed that the goddess might grant the best thing for man to her children
Cleobis
and
Biton
, who had given great honor to the goddess. [1.31.5] After this prayer they sacrificed and feasted. The youths then lay down in the temple and went to sleep and never rose again; death held them there. The
Argives
made and dedicated at Delphi statues of them as being the best of men. (
Herodotos
,
Histories
)Slide28
Kouroi
(singular
Kouros
)Slide29
The Delphi Charioteer. 470s BCE, dedicated by
Polyzalos
, tyrant of the city of Gela (Sicily)