This presentation gives an overview of the Golden Age of Athens, including the Parthenon and famous classical sculptures.

1. The Golden Age of Athens
c. 479-404 BCE

2. Beginnings of Democracy

3. Solon of Athens
Merry-Joseph Blondel, 19th c.

4. Pisistratus
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1834

5. Cleisthenes, Modern Bust

6. The Persian Wars
499-449 BCE

10. Leonidas at Thermopylae
Jacques-Louis David, 1814

11. The Peloponnesian War
431-404 BCE

13. Pericles’s Funeral Oration
Philipp von Foltz, 1853

14. The Plague in Athens
Michael Sweerts, 17th c.

15. Golden Age Athens

16. The Classical Orders

18. The Acropolis

21. Reconstruction of the Acropolis
Leo von Klenze, 1846

23. Athena Parthenos (Reconstruction)
Phidias, c. 440 BCE

24. The Parthenon
c. 448-430s BCE

26. Metopes: Battle of the Lapiths
and the Centaurs

28. East Pediment Sculptures

30. Frieze

31. Cavalcade

32. Procession of Figures

33. Sacrifice

34. Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to His Friends
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1868

35. The Erechtheion
c. 421-407 BCE

37. Porch of the Maidens (Caryatids)

38. The Temple of Athena Nike
437-424 BCE

39. The Temple of Athena Nike

42. The Agora

44. Reconstruction of Ancient Athens

46. Temple of Hephaistos

47. Middle Stoa

48. Reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos
(Agora Museum)

49. Stoa of Attalos, Interior

50. Sculpture

51. Kritios Boy
Kritios, c. 480 BCE

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

53. Discobolus (Discus Thrower)
Myron, c. 450 BCE

54. Aphrodite of Knidos
Praxiteles, c. 350-300 BCE

55. White-Ground Ceramics
Achilles Painter, Muse and Maiden
c. 445-430 BCE