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2d century 5th century Acropolis altar amphora animal Apollo Archaic period architecture arms artist Athena Parthenos Athenian Athens Attic B. C. Height band battle beautiful body bronze building cella century B. C. chariot cloak color composition Corinthian cornice cult image curved decorated delicate Dionysos Doric Doric order early east entablature Erechtheion erected Exekias façade face famous figure fragments frieze funerary garment geison Geometric goddess Greece Greek art hair hand head high Classical age Ionian Ionic columns Kerameikos Kleophrades Painter kore Kouros krater kylix Lapith late Archaic LEKYTHOS Lysippos meters metopes molding monumental Munich narrow neck Nike Olympia original ornament palmettes Parian marble Parthenon pediment Pergamon Phidias Polykleitos porch pottery Praxiteles probably Propylaea reclining red-figure relief representation Roman copy round scene sculpture Severe Style shoulder side sphinx statue statuette stone Temple of Zeus terrace theater torso upper city vase painting vessel volutes white-ground workshop