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- A metope is a rectangular architectural element found in classical Greek temples, typically situated between the triglyphs on the frieze of a Doric order building.
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Metopes are square panels that alternate with triglyphs on buildings that conform to the Doric order. This particular metope was originally positioned high up on the east (front) side of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
- Temple of Zeus, Olympia
The new Temple of Zeus was situated within the holy land of...
- Temple of Zeus, Olympia
The first metope shows Athena as a young woman, comforting the tired hero who has accomplished his first Labour, against the Nemean Lion. On the third metope she received the dead Stympahlian birds from him, and is seated on a rock, a possible reference to Athens.
The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple, built in the second quarter of the fifth century BC, was the very model of the fully developed classical Greek temple of the Doric order. [1]
The high-point of relief sculpture on metopes is exemplified by the 92 metopes of the Parthenon, metopes of the temple of Zeus at Olympia [1], together with the metopes of Temple C at Selinus.
The new Temple of Zeus was situated within the holy land of the Panhellenic sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia, so it was accessible to people living in all city-states. The temple was seen by visitors from across the Greek world for centuries until an earthquake caused its collapse in the 5th century C.E. [2] Its exterior was decorated with ...
The temple was built by a local architect called Libon, but was destroyed by an earthquake in the fifth century CE. Number: 98c. Material: Marble. Location of Original: Paris, Louvre 716 & Olympia Museum 79. Size: 1.60m x 1.50m.
The metopes of the Parthenon are the surviving set of what were originally 92 square carved plaques of Pentelic marble originally located above the columns of the Parthenon peristyle on the Acropolis of Athens. If they were made by several artists, the master builder was certainly Phidias.
