The Golden Age of Athens

c. 479-404 BCE

Beginnings of Democracy

Solon of AthensMerry-Joseph Blondel, 19th c.

PisistratusJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1834

Cleisthenes, Modern Bust

The Persian Wars

499-449 BCE

Leonidas at ThermopylaeJacques-Louis David, 1814

The Peloponnesian War

431-404 BCE

Pericles’s Funeral OrationPhilipp von Foltz, 1853

The Plague in AthensMichael Sweerts, 17th c.

Golden Age Athens

The Classical Orders

The Acropolis

Reconstruction of the AcropolisLeo von Klenze, 1846

Athena Parthenos (Reconstruction)Phidias, c. 440 BCE

The Parthenon

c. 448-430s BCE

Metopes: Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs

East Pediment Sculptures

Frieze

Cavalcade

Procession of Figures

Sacrifice

Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to His FriendsSir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1868

The Erechtheion

c. 421-407 BCE

Porch of the Maidens (Caryatids)

The Temple of Athena Nike

437-424 BCE

The Temple of Athena Nike

The Agora

Reconstruction of Ancient Athens

Temple of Hephaistos

Middle Stoa

Reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos(Agora Museum)

Stoa of Attalos, Interior

Sculpture

Kritios BoyKritios, c. 480 BCE

Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer)Polykleitos, c. 450-440 BCE

Discobolus (Discus Thrower)Myron, c. 450 BCE

Aphrodite of KnidosPraxiteles, c. 350-300 BCE

White-Ground Ceramics

Achilles Painter, Muse and Maidenc. 445-430 BCE