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This table is intended to provide a convenient framework for study and review: it is not a list of everything you need to know. We have chosen to highlight these monuments because they provide a cross section of media and periods. They therefore provide a useful collection of reference points for comparison with unknowns.
At the end of the table is a list of sites for which you should be able to recognize a plan.
| PERIOD | ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT MONUMENTS AND ARTIFACTS |
|---|---|
| Early Iron Age | Dark Age: Heroön at Lefkandi (plan of the same; plans of both burials; some objects found in the burials); rhyton in form of centaur (another view); Protogeometric skyphos |
| Geometric: Early Geometric amphora; Late Geometric amphora by the Dipylon Painter (Athens NM 804, detail); Late Geometric Crater by the Hirschfeld Painter (detail); "Nestor's Cup" from Pithekoussai; the Dipylon Vase (do NOT confuse with the Dipylon Amphora!) Geometric bronze horse from Olympia; terracotta temple models from Perachora and Argos | |
| Orientalizing--a.k.a. Early Archaic | Bronze griffin cauldron attachments; Mantiklos Apollo; "Nikandre" (Louvre 3098); Chigi Vase (overview; detail) |
| Archaic | Archaic temples and treasuries: Temple of Apollo, Thermon (see also this plan); Temple of Hera, Olympia; Temple of Artemis, Corfu pediment; The Siphnian Treasury (and its sculptural decoration); Athenian Treasury (and metopes: one, two, three) |
| Archaic free-standing sculpture: kouros from Sounion; Aristodikos (from Attica); kore from the Athenian Acropolis (Athens Acropolis 675) | |
| Early Archaic and Archaic pottery: Amphora by the Polyphemos Painter (detail); Corinthian oinochoe (Boston 64.14) | |
| Athenian black-figure pottery: dinos by Sophilos (London 1971.11-1.1); The Francois Vase by Kleitias and Ergotimos (overview of one side; overview of the other side. For details click here.) painting by Exekias (amphora); amphora by the Amasis Painter (Wurzburg L 265: Side A; Side B) | |
| Athenian red-figure pottery: bilingual amphora by the Andokides Painter (Munich 2301); krater by Euphronios; amphora by Euthymides (Munich 2307) | |
| Classical | Late Archaic-Early Classical: Temple of Aphaia, Aegina (pediments); "Kritios Boy"; Bronze Charioteer from Delphi (Delphi 3484, 3520, 3540) |
| Olympia: The Temple of Zeus and its sculpture | |
| Athens: The Parthenon and its sculpture and its sculpture; The Erechtheion | |
| 4th century BC: Mausoleum, Halicarnassus (see also this image and this image); Olynthus, plan of House A vii 4; plan of the Villa of Good Fortune; pebble mosaic from the Villa of Good Fortune; Vergina, Tomb 2 (the so-called "Tomb of Philip II"); plan of the so-called House of Dionysos at Pella; lion hunt and stag hunt pebble mosaics from Pella | |
| Hellenistic | Pergamon: Plan of Pergamon; Great Altar of Zeus |
| Etruscan Influence on Rome | The Portonaccio Temple at Veii; Apollo of Veii; The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus; the so-called "Brutus" |
| Roman Republic | Maison Carree, Nimes; Forum Boarium: Round and Rectangular Temples; Sanctuary of Fortuna, Praeneste; Nilotic mosaic from Praeneste; The Monument of L. Aemilius Paullus at Delphi; the so-called Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus; Roman Republican portraits; the funerary relief of P. Gessius |
| Pompeii: House of Sallust; House of the Faun; Alexander Mosaic; House of the Menander | |
| Roman Empire | Rome, Augustan: Prima Porta Augustus; Forum of Augustus with Temple of Mars Ultor; Altar of Peace |
| Rome, 1st century AD: Gemma Augustea; Portrait of Tiberius; Triumphal Arch at Orange; Sperlonga, The Grotto and Its Sculptural Groups of Polyphemus and Skylla; Golden House of Nero; Portrait of Vespasian; Arch of Titus; Colosseum; Flavian Palace | |
| Rome, 2nd century AD: Forum; and Column of Trajan; Markets of Trajan; portrait of Hadrian Pantheon; portrait of Marcus Aurelius | |
| Late Roman Empire | Rome, 3rd and 4th centuries AD: Monte Testaccio; Porphyry Tetrarchs; Arch of Constantine |
