Wounded Amazon

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Wounded Amazon

• Contest for Temple of Artemis
• Ephesos - Asia Minor
• ca. 440 bce
• 4 or 5 leading sculptors
• Roman marble copies
• original Greek bronze

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Wounded Amazon Types

• Sosikles/Capitoline (winning design)
• right arm raised leaning on spear held in right
  hand
• Berlin/Lansdowne/Sciarra
• one ankle-spur broken rein as belt left arm
  rests on column right reaches up behind head
• Mattei
• one ankle-spur quiver right arm reaching up
  left over head, holding spear at side

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Sosicles/Capitoline
Berlin/Lansdowne/Sciarra
Mattei
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Berlin/Lansdowne/Sciarra
Cast
New York
Berlin
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Sosicles
(much restored)
Louvre
Cast
Capitoline
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Mattei
Cast
Capitoline
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Franz von Stuck

• German Symbolist Artist
• 1863-1928
• Wounded Amazon (1904)
• Fighting Amazons (1897)
• Amazon and Centaur (1912)

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Herakles and Hippolyte

• Twelve labors
• six in northern Peloponnese
• other six
• north (Thrace), south (Crete), east (Amazons),
  and west (Erythia) extremities of known world
• Garden of the Hesperides at the edge of the earth
• underworld
• Belt of Hippolyte
• eastern extremity - land of the Amazons

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Garden of the Hesperides
Thrace
Erythia
Argolid
Amazons
Crete
Underworld
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Herakles and Amazons

• literature
• belt of Hippolyte
• artistic representations
• archaic
• battle with Amazons
• Herakles
• lion-skin
• club
• bow and arrow
• Amazons
• Scythian or Greek battle-dress

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Attic black-figure Amphora, 570-60 bce
Andromache
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Herakles battling AmazonsAttic black-figure
amphora6th century bcearchaic
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Attic black-figure neck amphora525-500 bce,
archaic
pelta
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Metope, Temple ESelinus, late archaic
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Theseus and Antiope

• from Troezen to Attika
• labors of Herakles vs. heroic deeds of Theseus
• e.g., bed of Prokrustes
• abduction of Antiope (aka Hippolyte)
• Amazonomachy
• classical, red-figure

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Troezen
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Attic red figure neck amphora470-460 bce, early
classical
bed
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Procrustes
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Attic red figure Amphora500-490 bce, late archaic
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Side B of same vaseWhat is this?(hint Sappho)
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Attic red figure cup525-475 bce, late archaic
Antiope
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Side B of same vase
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Attic red figure dinos470-450 bce, early
classical
Amazons
Greeks
Andromache
Theseus
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Attic red figure squat lekythos430 bce
classicaltranscript on next slide
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Hippolyte
Theseus
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Alexander and Thalestris

• Diodorus Siculus
• Greek Alexander Romance
• composed sometime 3rd century bce - 3rd century
  ce
• illustrated in western medieval manuscripts,
  drawings and tapestries, and in Persian, Mughal
  and Indian manuscripts from the fifteenth to
  eighteenth centuries
• 18th and 19th century baroque and neo-classical
  art

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Queen Thalestris331-330 bce
Phasis R
Thermodon R
The Odyssey of Alexander the GreatEd Stephan,
Western Washington University
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DIODORUS SICULUS 17.77
For he, she said, had shown himself the
greatest of all men in his achievements, and she
was superior to all women in strength and
courage, so that presumably the offspring of such
outstanding parents would surpass all other
mortals in excellence. At this the king was
delighted and granted her request and consorted
with her for thirteen days, after which he
honoured her with fine gifts and sent her home.
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Alexander and Thalestris

• Bagoas Pleading on Behalf of Nabarzanes and
  Thalestris and the Amazons Visit Alexander
• Manuscript illumination
• Book of the Deeds of Alexander the Great, French
  and Flemish, 1468 - 1475
• Queen Thalestris in the Camp of Alexander
• Johan Georg Platzer
• 1705-1761, Austrian
• small historical paintings on copper plates

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Thalestris and entourage
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Thalestris and entourage
Alexander encamped