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Re: Temple of Zeus at Olympia
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Fri, 11 Jul 2003 04:00:20 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Richard Lucas wrote:
> I am using a book by Peter Clayton and Martin Price titled "The Seven Wonders of
> the Ancient World" for some of my source data.
Ah. Martin Jessop Price was recently biographied in Celator.
I've always thought it would be fun to have a Pausanias minifig traveler visit
whatever people build...
There is a "Pausanias" book called Ancient Coins Illustrating Lost Masterpieces
of Greek Art, subtitled a numismatic commentary on Pausanias. It does cover the
Zeus at Megara (but not Olympia.) Pausanias: "and next, as you enter the sacred
precinct of Zeus, called the Olympeion, there is a temple well worth seeing....
The head of this statue of Zeus is of ivory and gold, but the other parts are of
clay and gypsum, and they say it was made by Theokosmos, a native, with the
assistance of Pheidias." (So much for Megara.) The authors of the commentary, F.
Imhoof-Blumer and P Gardner, promise that the coins shown illustrate "the usual
conventional respresentation of a seated Zeus by Pheidias." Which I guess means
that the ancients adapted the statue and kept it that way, because all the coins
are very similar across the years. One detail: the coins often have an eagle,
which was taken as shorthand for Nike (victory) in the little space available.
(I don't get it--tiny Nike is on lots of other coins.)
So, how about more color?
-Erik
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| (...) I am using a book by Peter Clayton and Martin Price titled "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" for some of my source data. There is an artist's rendition of the statue on page 65 of the book. I imposed a LEGO brick-shaped grid over the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jul-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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