|
|
 |
Undergraduate
Classics Teaching Collections |
| |
 |
 |
|
| Backward |
Forward |
| |
|
| Name: |
Head
from the Argive Heraion |
| Picture: |
 |
| Description: |
From
a metope on the Heraion, Argos. Athens, National Museum. H. 0.18m.
Male head, turning upwards and to the right, wearing an expression
of suffering or pleading. Large, staring eyes to suggest pathos, mouth
pursed in a gasp or uttering a cry. Hair short and curly, waving from
the forehead to the crown. Badly weathered. |
| Date: |
c. 420 B.C. |
| Discussion: |
The
metopes apparently showed an Amazonomachy. Polykleitos, himself an
Argive, produced the chryselephantine statue of Hera for the sanctuary,
and may have had some hand in designing the rest of the temple. See
Stewart 1990: 264-5; 444-7 (ills.). |
|
