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More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=KzZF1lP4Rbk Phidias(?), Parthenon Frieze, c. 438-32 B.C.E., pentelic marble (420 linear feet of the 525 that complete the frieze are in the British Museum)

Characteristics of Sicilian Archaic Temples The large dimensions of the components, the presence of a propteron, an adyton, and other specific elements of the plan and elevation speak for an originally very autonomous development of...

Uranus on the southern frieze of the Gigantomachy. Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

Horsemen from the Parthenon Frieze, 5th century BCE. (British Museum, London)

On the left side the goddess Hecate is depicted while fighting the giant Clytius (she fights in three incarnations with a torch, a sword, and a lance); Detail from the Pergamon Altar's frieze (The frieze depicts Gigantomachy); built in 2nd...

The moon goddess Selene is riding on her mule over one of the giants. Detail from the Pergamon Altar's frieze (The frieze depicts the Gigantomachy); built in 2nd century BCE; Today in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

Detail from the Pergamon Altar's frieze (The frieze depicts the Gigantomachy); built in 2nd century BCE; Today in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The detail is part of a scene where Athena kills the giant by separating him from the Earth.

A detail from the north frieze of the Treasury of the Siphians at Delphi depicting the Olympian gods fighting the Giants (525 BCE), Delphi Archaeological Museum.

Part of a hunting scene showing ostriches, ibexes, and a cub (upper register) and what appears to be a lizard and hunting dogs (lower register) in a hilly desert landscape. The upper part is the so-called Kheker Frieze. Hunting scenes were...

Frieze depicting the burial of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in the Mississippi River in 1542. Capitol Rotunda, Washington D.C.